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...which also cooks the fish he catches), goes goose-bumpy at the thought of hooking a 50-lb. sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly...
...face of the haggis (ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, boiled with oatmeal in a sheep's stomach bag), many a blithe spirit bolted, to watch Montreal's "social" regiment, the Black Watch, execute an eightsome reel, or dance to the music of Eddie Alexander's orchestra...
...Barnet Hodes an opening; he claimed that Chicago's libraries had 125,000 more books than Boston's had. Chicago, like the other delegations, had a newsreel to show its beauties. As the commentator said "This is the sort of thing worthy of study in Chicago," the reel stuck, and a bevy of fan dancers on ice skates froze on the screen, grinning toothily at the statesmen...
...publisher of Young America magazine (circ. 400,000 schoolchildren) and co-founder of a chain of newsreel theaters. Young America is the first filmmaker with the audacity to promise movie courses for every class from kindergarten through high school. It will offer a three-part package: a one-reel short for $25, summing up the course, a "strip film" of pictures and diagrams tied to a popular textbook in the field, and a what-to-do-about-it manual for the teacher. Young America hopes to put out 100 basic films and eight documentaries...
...melodrama about a dangerous occupation such as minesweeping, test piloting, logging. It begins with a fight, has the hero's pal killed in the second reel to prove the job is really dangerous, ends with a chase and the happy mating of the hero. No. 2 is a musical. It opens with boy meeting girl, ends with boy getting girl and playing a cantata in Carnegie Hall...