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...Donna de Varona, 13, a 102-lb minnow from Berkeley, who turned in the most stunning performance of the meet. Trailing World Record-holder Sylvia Ruuska by two strokes in the last lap of the exacting 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle). Donna summoned a last burst of speed, overtook 18-year-old Sylvia in the final yards, broke the world record by almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five in the Pool | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melodies in a Safe | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...REFLECTING UPON YOUR COVERAGE OF THE FAUBUS AFFAIR [SEPT. 23], I HEAR ONLY THE MOCKING LAUGH OF HISTORY - AT THOSE OF MY FELLOW SOUTHERNERS WHO WOULD HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF SOCIAL GROWTH WITH THE MINNOW SEINE OF TRUTHLESS REASON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Both books were written in dialogue, and the two main characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same errors. The author of the Arte says that the carp is "a fish not long knowen in England," while Walton says, "nor hath been long in England." Other coincidences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worthy of Perusal | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...William Bauer of Kingston, Ont. caught a 32-inch pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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