Word: catfishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grambling, La., is a sleepy Negro town in the heart of the peapatch and catfish country. The best way to get there is by car from Shreveport, over a highway that is partly pitted blacktop, built by Huey Long in the 1930s. But there is not much point in making the trip-unless, of course, you happen to be an athlete. Grambling is the home of Grambling College, a state-operated school with only 3,700 students, half of them girls, and year after year some of the best college football players in the nation. At last count, 17 Grambling...
...overweight": she goes off with her musical director and longtime friend Ernest Wampola (a Viennese doctor of music) on camping trips in the bush country of central Africa, where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia's Lake Mcllwaine. Last summer, from a distance of less than 60 feet, she photographed a lioness chewing up the carcass of a wildebeest...
...Greenwood with her son, was hospitalized several times for mental ailments, died of cancer at 47. The boy was then twelve. He was thereafter reared by an eccentric uncle, William Green Yerger, who dabbled at farming his family's remaining cotton acres. Mostly, the uncle liked to catch catfish. Sometimes he just stuffed the fish into a dresser drawer at home and left them there...
...developing which can take its place in the sun of modern America, developing an economy that will be the finest the people in this valley have ever known." As Kerr rhapsodized about the future, a lone fisherman in a flat-bottomed boat drifted by on the Arkansas, angling for catfish...
...Pros. Mr. Smith is back in Washington, more or less. Lifting the title of the old Jimmy Stewart movie, NBC has turned Smith into a "dip me in butter and fry me for a catfish" type, giving the role to Fess Parker. It maybe-to borrow a line from its own dialogue-"in more hot water than a washcloth." Another old movie, Going My Way, is now a TV series (ABC), with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll doing nicely as Father Bing Crosby and Father Barry Fitzgerald. In other seasons, a cassock opera like this one might have stood...