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...spanking line squall worked its way along the Florida Keys and its backlash sent a wet wind whistling into the Key Largo bedroom of Captain Tom Gifford. The stocky man in the double bed rolled over and mumbled: "Southeast wind-that means the tuna are at Cat Cay." More concerned with her own comfort, Mrs. Esther Gifford got out of bed and closed the window. "Damn that man," she grumbled. "He can't stop fishing even in his sleep...
...Gifford has spent 40 years fighting with fish and the men who want to catch them. He has done the job so well that he is generally rated the greatest saltwater fishing guide in the world. Over the years, he calculates, he has boated some 300,000 Ibs. of fish and has thrown back twice that much. His customers have broken 24 assorted world records...
...Gifford Pinchot, having drawn breath after the whirlwind campaign that made her husband Governor of Pennsylvania, went to Washington with a plan. "Let the women . . . take charge of prohibition enforcement." she urged President Harding, "and see if they are not more zealous for enforcement than...
...Eugene Gifford Grace, life means competition. And in any kind of competition-from the baseball diamond to the steel mill-he likes to lead the team. For 41 of his 81 years. Gene Grace not only captained giant Bethlehem Steel Corp., but was often the industry's most articulate spokesman in its bouts with Big Labor and Government. Last week, seven months after suffering a stroke, Chairman Grace stepped down as chief executive of the company that he had molded into the nation's second-biggest producer of steel, and its biggest shipbuilder...
...recently been elected president of next year's board of the Harvard Law Review. Also on the new board are the following: Treasurer, Loyd M. Starrett; Article Editors, Arnold N. Enker and Arthur R. Miller; Note Editors, William V. Kane and Peter M. Fishbein; Case Editors, Daniel J. Gifford and Richard J. Medalie; Book Review Editor, Thomas B. Leary; Developments Editor, Jack H. Friedenthal. All the new board-members are second-year law students...