Word: humphrey
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Hunter Thompson delivered his own surprises. Sent out to cover Humphrey, a wayward whale in the Sacramento River, Thompson instead reported in preposterous detail on an elderly Chinese woman who claimed to be Richard Nixon's former mistress. Thompson devoted a subsequent column to a blistering attack on his "brainless" editor's failure to pay room-service tabs. All good fun, sort of, but other reporters grew angry that Thompson was mugging the Examiner while collecting $1,500 per column...
...loss of Humphrey, as the nearby Rio Vista whale watchers have named him, would be a serious one. The humpback whale is an endangered species: only some 12,000 still exist, about 5% to 10% of the original population. "They used to be very good hunting," says Mark Ferrari, a whale photographer who has helped coordinate efforts to direct the whale back...
...Humphrey has been less than cooperative with would-be rescuers. He has outmaneuvered tugboats that tried to herd him, and disdained efforts to lure him toward salt water with tape recordings of his breed's distinctive sounds. Towing, says Ferrari, "has always been disastrous. We could drown him or tangle him." Though fresh water will inevitably wear down the oceangoing creature, optimistic experts predict the whale can survive for more than two weeks in the brackish tides of the delta. That gives Humphrey's helpers the slim hope that with time to reconsider his position, he will find...
...refusing to bail out U.S. shoemakers, Reagan further stirred protectionist passions in Congress. The shoe industry has some powerful allies, including Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Danforth of Missouri (home of Buster Brown shoes). Of the four-member New Hampshire delegation, only one, Senator Gordon Humphrey, supported the President. "I don't represent shoeworkers only," declared Humphrey. "I represent consumers." Humphrey is not running for re-election next year...
...1940s, could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union and Sweden. For Hollywood, it was the blossoming of a beautiful friendship...