Word: mackerels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman felt fine. The U.S. reaction to his speech was favorable. He was tanned and rested from hours of sunbathing, reading, gabbing with his aides and newsmen and fishing in small boats for big ones. His total catch: one 5-lb. mackerel...
...Florida boosters would have considered themselves betrayed if he did no fishing. Flanked by his chief of staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (who likes to fish), he set out in a crash boat to wet a line. His catch: a 5-lb. barracuda, a grouper and a mackerel...
...another refugee from the mothballs, Phil Napolean, a cornetist who used to tootle feebly with Miff Mole and the rest of the Memphis Five, Tony whistles, sings and hums through a comb wrapped in tissue paper throughout both sides. Napolean--unlike King Oliver, the Benny Goodman band and fresh mackerel--has actually improved with age. There's nothing flashy about his playing, but its good steady LaRocco stuff...
...held by William Beebe, who dangled on a cable 3,028 feet below the ocean's surface in a hollow steel "bathysphere." Professor Piccard plans a bolder approach. His bathyvessel, which he began designing before the war, will be a true submarine, as free-swimming as a mackerel. His goal, he told newsmen last week, is 4,000 meters, nearly 2½ miles below the surface. The Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research will sponsor the big dive...
...sharks had been deeply offended. A boat had towed two cloth bags full of the Navy's new shark repellent all around the net. The concoction's smell was so revolting to the sharks that they lost interest in the mackerel...