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Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
Greer Garson, perched on a rock for some moviemaking, was knocked off her perch by an outsize wave and carried 30 feet out into Monterey Bay. Promptly Vincent Sallecito, a sardine fisherman acting as an extra, waded in, carried her out. Miss Garson was taken to a hospital with cuts, bruises, and a sprained back. The fisherman was taken over by the press. Said he: it was like "fishing a slippery sardine out of a bucket." He warmed to his subject: "I've often dreamed of myself clasping Greer Garson in my arms, but I never thought I would...
...Miami, the average fisherman, a landlubber, dashes down to Pier 5 before 8 a.m. He buys a box lunch at the Trade Winds Restaurant (which also cooks the fish he catches), goes goose-bumpy at the thought of hooking a 50-lb. sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors...
Terrible-Tempered Tarpon. In Port Isabel, Texas, a 6-ft., 125-lb. tarpon got mad at Fisherman William Bledsoe, jumped out of the water into his boat, busted four of his ribs, knocked him overboard, but was too tired to follow him back...
...decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...