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...discovered this mid winter sport only 15 years ago. Their steelheaders' tackle was homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...
...Eppenauer's Gob: the 10,000-peso ($2,000) Inaugural Handicap, opening-day feature of Mexico City's resplendent new Hipodromo de las Americas (TIME, Feb. 15); before a crowd of 44,000, largest in Mexican sports history...
...Sample stanza: And every farmer in the land Up on his hind legs will stand And the laborer at his job And the soldier and the gob...
...equipment, but the men who man it. The trouble is that in this show the men are mostly a crew of waterlogged cinemactors. There is a gallant young Cuban (Desi Arnaz) who recites: "Your contry made my contry free, now I make your contry free." There is a comedy gob, his mouth all corners, who keeps tuning in on the Dodgers, though any radio aboard would have been sealed* before the Sybil Gray sailed. There is a radio-tinker on whose set the Nazi code is at last unscrambled, bringing warning to his ship, danger to the enemy...
...hectic triple-header romance between a dizzy blonde stenographer, her stuffed-shirt boss, and her sea-going sweetie, "A Girl, A Guy, and A Gob" is Producr Harold Lloyd's funniest show since he swapped his horned rimes for a megaphone. In its best moments the picture is side-splitting farce with Lucille Ball showing the potentialities of another Ann Sothern as the pretty bit of platinum that couldn't decide between a guy with "Brooks" on his vest and a gob with hair on his chest. In its worst moment the feature dribbles into a standard Hollywood potboiler which...