Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wall swallowers," there was still some topflight work among the 2,000 sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's latest neoclassical horses, nudes and knights in armor...
...present, Block, reached by boat from Connecticut, has fishermen's dwellings, an infrequently used hotel, an antique movie theatre, antique cars, and an incredible number of gas stations...
Shrimp Boats (Jo Stafford; Columbia). A folk song about Louisiana fishermen's wives awaiting the tide, the shrimp catch and their husbands, so they can all have a party. Jo Stafford gives it atmosphere and bounce...
...team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often upended into cactus plants by the wind. "It was hard work," says Ziegler, "but it was beautiful. There were many trout streams, and Isabella is one of the finest dry-fly fishermen anywhere. Once in two casts she landed six trout, using three dry flies on one leader...
...hundred more of the marked salmon, averaging ten pounds each, have been caught by fishermen. Dr. Donaldson hopes that in the next few weeks 1% of the nurslings will have been accounted for, a sensational success in the salmon-nursing business. The faithful return of the alumni, says Dr. Donaldson, will start a new era in the study and culture of salmon. Instead of searching out the migrating salmon in rushing, intractable rivers, fish experts can now handle them as docile laboratory subjects...