Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistress in comfortable, convenient quarters. At Gulfport's Municipal Airport, the mess hall ordered an extra 500 lbs. of ice a day to keep the Guardsmen's drinks tall and cool. During the day, the Guardsmen set off for the beach, headed for the bayous to fish for bream. At night they swarmed into Gulfport's nightspots to gamble at the tables and ogle the show girls. There was little work for the unit's recreation officer. Said he: "Last year I tried to organize a softball league. It was a real flop. They were...
...Bishop Ryan's duty to cover all of his enormous diocese every five years, and 210,000 square miles takes a lot of traveling, mostly by outboard motor and usually alone. On these trips he catches his own fish and can even make a fire by rubbing two sticks together, "provided that one of the sticks is a match." Under him, 25 Franciscan priests, all Americans, and seven lay brothers administer churches in ten principal centers, plus 130 chapels, and 250 small settlements where the Christian community is served by a local girl, who says her rosary aloud...
...Fish-eyed Frankie Carbo, 56, boxing's undercover czar, took one on the chin in Los Angeles last week. A federal jury convicted the Murder, Inc. graduate of extortion, conspiring to grab a piece of ex-Welterweight Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing...
...enticing is marina living that they never leave the slip all weekend long, as they sun on the boat deck, swim off the stern, and cook in the galley. To add to their comfort. Lake Texoma port authorities have come up with a novel, congenial, and undemanding way of fishing: the "Fisharena." This is a huge building built out over the lake, with a circular hole cut into the floor so that 500 anglers can fish the waters below at one time. In true Texas style, the Fisharena is heated in the winter, air-conditioned in the summer...
...Research Associate in Physiology, Mrs. Hilda Weyl Sokol, will study fish endocrinology. Two poets, Mrs. Maxine W. Kumin and Mrs. Anne Sexton (who never attended college), will work at the Institute, in addition to painters Mrs. Lois Swirnoff and Mrs. Barbara Swan...