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Then there is the mako, probably the flashiest fighting fish in the sea. A snaggle-toothed bruiser (record: 1,000 Ibs.) that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death...
Mundus also has a 3,500-lb. white to his credit (again harpooned), plus a hand in 15 rod-and-reel records that range from a 66-lb. porbeagle caught on 12-lb.-test line to a 683-lb. 12-oz. mako caught on 50-lb. test. To catch a shark, he says, first catch a whale...
Hard-driving Louis and easygoing brother Dave (known to friends as "Mako" and "Spendo") now have six U.S. factories, wholly owned British and Canadian subsidiaries, and toy-manufacturing interests in Germany, France, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. Peak U.S. employment...
...youngsters will probably play the lead at Forest Hills, a couple of even younger tennists may well steal the spotlight this summer. They are: 18-year-old Edward ("Budge") Patty,* and 16-year-old Bob Falkenburg. In this pair, the Southern California Tennis Association thinks it has another Budge & Mako...
...city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with Budge), to turn...