Word: provensens
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...found and finally landed" a mere 3½-lb. bass. I happened to be reading TIME and Mr. Holzman's letter during a shark-hunt off Lewes, Del., when I was roused by a shout from one of our party: "I got one!" He was Herluf Provensen, who was presidential announcer for NBC out of Washington until he became assistant manager of its Washington stations, WRC and WMAL. Sure 'nuff, he had one a 300-lb. shark, measuring about 7 ft.! It was the last of four caught by our party, which also included Harold Talburt, Scripps-Howard...