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...fine form, Bryant missed only one entrance cue: between scenes he went aft to inspect his catfish line, and found it snagged. After wading in to pull it clear, he returned to the stage muddied and breathless in time to ad-lib to King Claudius : "I just caught the damndest, biggest fish...
...Catfish in Season. Perhaps the greatest change-and the hardest for Cap'n Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...
...John J. McCloy had quit his $30,000,-a-year, tax-free post as president of the World Bank to become U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. General Clay would leave this week, whether or not the appointment was certain. He was anxious to get down to Georgia for some catfish-ing and the comforts of retirement...
...finer people than those in [Howell's district]. Why, there's a church every three miles and they all keep their graveyards clean." He told off Goldwasser. "That roaring lion from Judea is a disgrace to the Jewish race. He wouldn't even make catfish bait in the Altamaha River...