Word: marlin
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...proposed service," according to John A. Marlin '62, who will be manager of the organization, "will be advertised specifically, and at present exclusively, for people who have contracted to use the H.S.A. Charter Flight service and need photos for their passports...
...Jackie Kennedy's forlorn hopes for a week or two of secluded vacationing at Hyannisport with her husband were quickly washed overboard. For exactly two days the Democratic presidential nominee devoted him self entirely to the leisurely life - cruising in his father's 52-ft. yacht The Marlin (built in 1930 for Edsel Ford), browsing through Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator, swimming, napping, and playing in the backyard with Daughter Caroline, 2½. Then the special switch board began to flash like a swarm of fire flies, his appointment book began to fill up ominously...
Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed...
...Cuba (see PRESS). But if the bearded Castro himself really thought his country in peril, he hardly showed it. He escorted Indonesia's President Sukarno around the island, then took ship for the "Hemingway Tourney.'' Castro's impressive catch: a 46-lb. sailfish and three marlin weighing...
...Composing is like fishing," said the late Jerome Kern. "You get a nibble, but you don't know whether it's a minnow or a marlin until you reel it in." Writing quickly and easily. Kern landed enough songs in his lifetime to serve 92 stage and 25 screen productions, but few people outside the music trade knew that he also piled up a surplus that was never published. Since Kern's death in 1945 at 60, the musical overflow-some 75 waltzes, ballads, rhythm songs, tangos and beguines-has remained in a safe in the Manhattan...