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After that, peacetime Washington and nearby Maryland promised to be a fisherman's dream. Captain Thomas D. Smith Jr., another enthusiast, was also stationed at the institute. "Everyone we met told us that fishing was fine in Maryland," says Rathbun. The trouble was that Rathbun and Smith could find no fish. "Go to Queen Anne's Bridge," said the experts. "or try 'The Gooses.'" For a long time the two men couldn't even find the recommended fishing holes...
...expire until 1955, Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, 57. a sea dog with a somewhat tenuous hold on world politics and the art of interservice maneuvers, will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick ("Mick") Carney, 58, a Navy air enthusiast who has shaped up a first-rate land & sea fighting force as NATO commander for Southern Europe...
Strong real-estate pressure groups tried to get Bowron to reverse his stand on the housing contracts. No great public-housing enthusiast, Republican Bowron stubbornly refused, because he believed in the sanctity of contract. (He was subsequently upheld by the state supreme court.) "When I became mayor," Bowron said recently, "it was a measure of a mayor's worth to get federal money. So I got it, and what happens? I'm a socialist villain...
Cigar-chewing Curt LeMay, a sports-car enthusiast who does his own highway driving in a Cadillac-Allard, was on hand to watch a pet LeMay project. Airport racing, with admissions at $2 a head, swells the treasuries of Air Force Aid societies and local charities, pays for barracks improvements and gives SAC airmen a constructive off-duty hobby-tinkering with engines. Moreover, the Sports Car Club gains the advantage of sporty, twisting courses on the runways, where chance spectators are not so apt to wander out into the turns as they sometimes do in road racing...
...Eliot is surprised that this slight Greek scholar should be a rabid sports enthusiast. In fact, no one in the House would be surprised at anything about Finley. He is a remarkable man, they agree, with sweeping interests, an unpredictable nature, and a character marked by both poetry and precision...