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Word: fishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wicker of the New York Times, Phil Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald Tribune were invited for a fish fry. Next morning Wicker was taken on a ride in the presidential Lincoln. Chauffeur: Lyndon B. Johnson. Velocity: up to 70 m.p.h. TIME'S Hugh Sidey got a chicken dinner and a boat ride up the lower Colorado River. Guide: Lyndon B. Johnson. The Restons' visit became practically a family outing. Learning that Reston's son Richard, a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was in Austin, Johnson ordered Presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down on the Ranch | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

Tessie is a cockney peddler of fish 'n' chips who has been plopped into the show's continuity to provide flavorful exterior background to the otherwise indoor London setting of Terence Rattigan's story about an American girl and a Carpathian prince. With a big straw hat over her blonde hair, her clothing a rag sonata of browns and purples, her feet, encased in high button shoes, kicking up to show legs that would flatter a Tottenham Court soccer player, she belts out a medley of Noel Coward cockney songs-London Is a Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Divine Whiff | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...oddly energetic pastime for a 15-stone woman who coyly says "I'm about ten pounds overweight": she goes off with her musical director and longtime friend Ernest Wampola (a Viennese doctor of music) on camping trips in the bush country of central Africa, where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia's Lake Mcllwaine. Last summer, from a distance of less than 60 feet, she photographed a lioness chewing up the carcass of a wildebeest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Divine Whiff | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...Fish from on High. In a style that can best be described as satiric slapstick fantasy, Author Miller follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Will THEY Never Come? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...migrated to another planet). With mad logic, Brown's fellow fantasists have built a fabric of proof by linking together all manner of telltale occurrences, past and present-the disappearance of a man here, a successful experiment in levitation there, flying saucers, of course, and reports of fresh fish falling inexplicably on land (obviously droppings from space aquariums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Will THEY Never Come? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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