Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Week before, during the Cat Cay tuna tournament, Tommy Shevlin landed three tuna - a 382-pounder, a 406-pounder, a 485-pounder -within 62 minutes. Fellow fishermen thought it a world's record...
Among those who witnessed the weighing-in on Cat Cay's swank little dock was New York Sportsman Tommy Shevlin, one of the best big-game anglers in the world,* whom Mrs. Sears displaced as world's record holder for blue marlin. Her fish weighed 94 Ib. more than the 636-pounder he caught in the same waters on June 19, 1935-with a 54-thread line. Angling authorities thought Mary Sears's catch the largest game fish ever taken with a 24-thread line...
...eight times. The result was published last April by Santly-Joy-Select, Inc., which got out The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round and admits to liking "crazy things." Under its title Three Little Fishies, Saxie Dowell's song last week had set something of a current record by leading the field in sheet music sales for a month...
...Hong Kong last February, Captain John Wenlock Welch commanding. She has not been seen since. Public interest in Richard Halliburton's fate was modified by the suspicion that his disappearance might be a pressagent stunt. But last week, in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, was published the record of what appeared to be the only unpremeditated adventure of Adventurer Halliburton's career...
...Chief Monopoly Investigator Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., hastening to deny that it had coached its witnesses to use Mr. Chase's words, referred to the record to show that Monopoly Witnesses Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. and John W. Barriger III had violated Mr. Chase's advice right and left...