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...year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious? A speedometer accurate to one one-hundredth of a knot? What about an unsinkable, watertight canvas bag, roomy enough to stow cameras, film, wallets, watches and jewelry? He certainly needs the new $200 German binoculars that weigh less than a pound, float, and-reflect flashlight rays in the dark. Not to mention the latest sonar-system depth finder, which costs...
...steelhead trout fishing trip [Jan. 1], I arose at 5 a.m., drove 2½ hours over snow-covered roads, experienced a near-fatal skid, stood from dawn to dusk in icy, chest-high water, and was buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...
Send Me No Flowers. Well, they've finally gone and done it. Five years after they started making Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson and Doris Day have tied the knot. And moved into a mortgage-covered cottage in commuterland. And joined the very best country club. And subsided into exurban sprawl. But not for long. Something inevitably goes wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Right...
...weekend bathers. In a three-day swing around "the Southern Tier," he made 51 stops in 21 cities, got such an overwhelming reception that people began to talk about "poor old Ken." In Watertown, he outdrew Keating 45 to 1. In Ogdensburg, where Keating spoke to a lonely knot of 24 listeners, Bobby drew 2,000. In Jamestown, where G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate Bill Miller had a crowd of 250, Bobby lured 4,000. In Glens Falls, Bobby arrived just before 1 a.m., still found 4,000 people, more than one-fifth of the populace, waiting for him, many...
...knot curled in my throat--a knot that seems to have not been broken...