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...looks ahead at some floating sargasso weed, where some flying fishes are skittering through the air. "Could be fish there," he says. A reel gives out a soft whine, and Hemingway goes into action again. "Beautiful!" he cries. "Dolphin. They're beautiful." After landing his fish, shimmering blue, gold and green, Hemingway turns his attention to his guest. "Take him softly now," he croons. "Easy. Easy. Work him with style. That's it, up slowly with the rod, now reel in fast. Suave. With style. With style. Don't break his mouth." After the second fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Fragile Fox bangs through three acts, tossing at the audience a large variety of theatrical explosives. Blood is shed, broken bones are set, orders are defied, prisoners are shot, characters swear and curse, reel forward and roll backward. The characters themselves range from the comic to the psychopathic, the believable to the incredible; the incidents sometimes recall the war, rather oftener recall other war plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...moppet market, he bought 4% of Lionel Corp. for $630,000. Field & Stream Magazine ($1,300,000) and the James Heddon's fishing-tackle company in Michigan ($2,400,000) were naturals for Murchison, and not merely because of his abiding interest in rod and reel. Among other things, he was figuring on a basic change in the U.S. economy: "Shorter hours mean more fishing." Following the same line of thought, he leased Colorado's Royal Gorge Bridge, a tourist attraction complete with an amusement ride for children, bought a string of outdoor movie theaters, and a resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Stranger Left No Card starts out like one of the old two-reel comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Subjects | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...director, he is forced to work at a pace and in a catch-as-catch-can manner reminiscent of the early days of silent pictures. Where major studios do well to dub sound on one 1,000-ft. reel of film in one day, Dragnet must finish three reels in a half-day. But Webb refuses to surrender his almost fantastic insistence on accuracy of detail in backgrounds, dialogue and mannerisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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