Word: fisherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mr. Grinnell began trolling for broadbills where Long Island Sound joins the Atlantic, many another fisherman has gone there for the sport, preferring cool Montauk to torrid Cuba in the summer months. Many a Florida fishing captain works out of Montauk every year now. The ablest ones include Captains Bill Hatch, Bill Fagan, Howard Lance, Charlie Thompson, Tom Gifford...
Next morning the President tarried at Gloucester to have some fun. Aboard the Amberjack II he received Captain Ben Pine of the racing fisherman Gertrude L. Thebaud. Their last meeting was in Washington whither "Cap'n" Pine had sailed the Thebaud to ask for a higher tariff on fish (TIME, May I). The President was given an oil painting of the Thebaud which moved him to exclaim: "I think the painting is particularly lovely and I'll hang it in my study in the White House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look...
...Heart (Cosmopolitan) gives Marion Davies a chance to say "Wurra-wurra" and wear her hair in pigtails, the accepted procedure for actresses who, in this strangely enduring sentimental comedy, revive the role which Laurette Taylor originated in 1912. The play deals, as everyone knows, with an old Irish fisherman, the antithesis of the savage angler in I Cover the Waterfront (see above), and his daughter who inherits ?2,000,000. With her small mongrel Michael, she goes to England to live in a manor house where she squabbles with the butler, falls in love with a young solicitor, is informed...
Into busy TIME office last week stamped baldpated, hooknosed, bewhiskered Ghost Peter. No wearer of rings, there hung from his gird loins the Fisherman's Keys. Crashing through...
Died. Countess Tokiko Yamamoto, 73, Japanese "Cinderella"; of a stomach ulcer; in Tokyo. Third daughter of a poor fisherman, she was sold at 14 to the proprietor of a house in Tokyo's Yoshiwara (prostitution) district. A young naval officer fell in love with, kidnapped, married her. He became Admiral Count Gombei Yamamoto, twice (in 1913 & 1923) Premier of Japan...