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...Breton fisherman, Pierre Tal-Coat has been a long time getting-out from under the older generation's thumb. Beginning his career in his teens, he taught himself by studying the styles of the artists he admired most. As he wandered from Brittany to Paris to Provence and back again, he worked his way through the rough-stroked techniques of the expressionists to the slick, brashly colored abstractions of Picasso...
Onlookers plunged to their rescue. Sixteen youths who were playing bowls nearby leaped into the mass of choking children. Fisherman Bruno Pirollo pulled four little girls out, dived in again to search for his own Ivana. He did not find her. Don Moses Lionello dragged out two little girls, became hysterical. Maria Bessan had tightly hugged eleven-month-old Luigi during the fall, but had lost him struggling in the water...
...Iron. Suspicion was first aroused when two fishermen left Port-of-Spain in an outboard-powered pirogue on a calm day and never came back. Four days later two other fishermen went out in their boat and also failed to return. The last to report their boat was a fisherman who said he saw them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson, member...
...Singh knows the value of a proper appearance. During the war, when he owned a string of nightclubs, he wore a ten-gallon hat, a sharply draped zoot suit, and numerous rings. More recently he has assumed the role of owner of a modest fishing fleet and prefers a fisherman's sweater and khaki trousers...
Silk & Tweed. In spite of his protective coloration, Trinidad police began to take a lively interest in Fisherman Singh. An indignant Venezuelan had come to town to report that three of his relatives had shipped out of Port-of-Spain last month bound for Venezuela with a $3,000 cargo of cloth and had never been seen again. The police raided the home of Singh's wife and son, found some silk and tweeds of the same pattern as those bought by the missing Venezuelans. They also found the outboard motor and fishing equipment of one of the first...