Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a few short blocks away from Harvard University's refined Commencement Week exercises, Charles River fish and herring gulls are waging the age-old battle for survival with savage brutality...
...begins for Chief Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) when a "copper's nark" (informer) turns over a nasty kettle of fish: a member of Gideon's staff has taken hush money from a dope ring. Gideon rushes off to the office, rips the lettuce off his lapsed subordinate, sends out the alert for a sex murderer from Manchester. Then he looks in at the scene of a payroll robbery, gets word that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes...
...June issue of Harper's Magazine appeared with a mystical, low-keyed little fishing tale by a brand-new fictioneer. Author of The Great Fish of Como: onetime (1949-53) Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 66, whose rare good fortune it was to have his very first effort published by the first periodical that...
...shingle toward a partnership. The hitch comes when he realizes that in advancing his worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...
...Fish-Bowl Policy. The fund that has done more than any other to put shares in the household sugar bowl is Massachusetts Investors Trust, oldest and big gest of the mutual funds and the one that set the pattern for all the rest. M.I.T is a child of Boston, which has raised the handling of O.P.M. (other people's money) to the status of a fine art. The art was born of an 1830 court decision, the "Prudent Man Rule." In settling a suit charging a trustee with negligence in investing in common stocks, the judge held that...