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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALDOUS HUXLEY, by John Atkins; THE HUXLEYS, by Ronald W. Clark. Cynic or mystic? Humanist or cold fish? Both books get close to the answers as they dissect the puzzling genius whose family contributed more than its share of intellectual heavyweights...
Boros still wants people to believe that he would rather stay home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and fish for snook than play golf. At the very least, he says, "I get just as excited when I fish as I do when I'm playing golf." And how excited is that? Well, after he won the 1963 Open, Julius reportedly opened a beer, lit up a cigarette, and fell sound asleep while he was being interviewed by a nationally syndicated columnist. Oh no, insists Boros: he was only resting his eyes...
...challenge for the kosher housewife. Friday is usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." Says Mrs. Baris: "I obviously don't need...
High Price. One big incentive behind the hunt for Big Daddy is the price on his head. Miami's Tycoon/Fin-Nor Corp. will pay $5,000 to the first angler who lands a 1,000-lb. blue marlin on its fishing tackle; there is another $1-per-lb. reward if the fish is caught off the Virgin Islands, and $10,000 if it is boated off Puerto Rico...
...after Fishman broke the record, David Massey, another Virgin Islander, was fighting a 700-lb. blue marlin when he looked over his shoulder and saw "ten or twelve others circling the boat, including one that had to be 20 ft. long." The guesses on the weight of that fish range...