Word: bonitos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like old times in the famed wooden geisha houses along the river Sumida. A geisha party before the war meant soft lights from many-colored lanterns, the tinkle of the samisen, a mossy garden with elegant dollhouse trees, a banquet starting with pickled sea-urchin eggs, dried seaweed, bonito entrails, mushrooms, and cuttlefish served with maple leaves and chrysanthemums. Above all, it meant the geisha girls themselves, in lacquered wigs and colorful kimonos, who poured sake from porcelain vases, performed their slow and discreet dances, and sang their sad, seductive love invitations...
...successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...
...Director Fred Zinnemann recalled that the late documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) had told him in 1931 of a similar story he wanted to shoot. Flaherty later sold the idea to Orson Welles, who produced an unfinished version of the story for RKO called My Friend Bonito. In her Vermont home, Mrs. Frances Flaherty has no thought of suing anyone. "I wouldn't think about protesting that award," she says, "but I'm highly amused by the whole situation." Welles is even more delighted with the flap. "If they [the King brothers] used...
...come within 100 miles of the Communist China coast. The coastal waters of North America, once a plentiful source of salmon and halibut, are now closed to Japan by a U.S. Canadian agreement that occupied Japan was persuaded to sign. And in the vast mid-Pacific tuna and bonito grounds, the U.S. has posted a 421,500-sq.-mi. nuclear testing area, which jittery Japanese fishermen have given a wide berth since radioactive ash fell on the Fortunate Dragon...
...jerks once to set the hook, then with slow, graceful movements he pumps the rod back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about 15 pounds. A broad, small-boy smile flashes through Hemingway's old-man whiskers. "Good," he says. "A fish...