Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Open not only to Gulf Stream fishermen but to anyone who catches one of the 30 specified varieties of fish† with rod & reel within the tournament's fixed boundaries-from boat, pier, bridge, bulkhead or breakwater-the Miami tournament, started three years ago, is the largest in the U. S. Last year 102,000 contestants entered their catches. A barefoot boy with a 10? rod, a trailer tourist who goes out on a $2-a-day party boat and an elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance...
...broken, the country flooded, the waters flowing the wrong way, and barns, mules, chicken coops and people bobbing around in a drenched and bewildering world. One of the bewildered people is a tall, lean, 25-year-old hillbilly convict who has never seen much water before. Given a boat which he does not know how to manage, he is sent to rescue a woman perched on an old cypress snag and a man clinging to the ridgepole of a cotton house...
...boat is soon completely out of the convict's control. It races downstream, hits an eddy, drifts back, finally carries the convict, stunned and incredulous, to the tree where the woman perches on the branch like a bird. "It's taken you a while," she says...
...pregnant - a quiet, pale girl dressed in a calico wrapper, a sunbonnet and part of an old army uniform. He gets her into the boat, pushes off. From this point on it is the convict against the Mississippi-he trying to get the boat and the woman back to the guards, the Mississippi plunging him through thickets, over cotton fields, up past Vicksburg and down past Baton Rouge, past dead cows, bobbing outhouses; and leaving him the exhausted, hungry, indignant victim of nature on the loose...
Harry Kunin wears a gardenia, its stem in a phial of water. Daily he commutes between Chicago and suburban Highland Park, where he has a landscaped "farm" complete with boat landing but no boat ("You've never seen anything like it outside of the movies," says Brother Max). One day last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest...