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...Explained how he expects to reveal his choice for Democratic nominee: Tom Gavin of Kansas City, an old friend and Delegate Harry Truman's alternate, will vote on the first ballot at the national convention for Truman's candidate...
...fisherman was not having his leg pulled, as he huffily assumed. Gavin Maxwell, the young man in the sweater, was not a fisher of trout but of basking sharks-creatures "as large as a London bus," that roam the bays and lochs of western Scotland. Harpoon Venture, Maxwell's account of four years of shark-shooting, is a natural for vacation reading. But it also has a secondary theme that many people will find more interesting than the main...
HARPOON VENTURE (304 pp.)-Gavin Maxwell-Viking...
This theme is Gavin Maxwell's personal history. In 1945, aged 29, he was demobbed from the British army with the rank of major. Like many another veteran, he was dead set against living out the peace at a desk; unlike most vets, he had a few thousand pounds of capital. He spent some of it to make one dream come true: he bought a small island in the Hebrides, with salmon rights and a commercial fishery. It was while exploring the neighboring waters of his little kingdom that he first saw "a ripple with a dark center" breaking...
Prevented from cheering the President personally, the club sent Kansas City's beefy Alderman Thomas J. Gavin around to give him its Christmas present-a $275 gold cigarette lighter, which, club members happily reported, had been bought wholesale for $150. "It's real solid gold," Gavin told non-smoker Truman. "Don't give it away, Harry...