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...Born. To Rod Taylor, 34, onetime Australian artist turned Hollywood heartthrob (Sunday in New York), and Mary Hilem, 26, former Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...that the black marlin is the biggest game fish around; some sharks grow bigger. The black is just the fastest, strongest, smartest and meanest-and big enough too. The record for rod and reel is 1,560 Ibs., and even the babies-meaning 200 Ibs. or so-have bills like baseball bats. Golfer...
Like a Polaris missile, the great fish roars out of the water, sometimes jumping 12 ft. or more, as he goes raging and tail-walking across the ocean. The hook usually pulls clear at this point, or the rod breaks, or the line pops with a crack like a .38 pistol. If the marlin does decide to stay and dance awhile, he rolls in the wire leader, smashes away at it with his bill, swims off on long curving runs to get a slack "belly" in the line. If that fails, in shallow water he will sometimes jam his bill...
...What right have you to criticize the music that today's teen-agers listen to and enjoy? Some of the things that are put on records I know are extremely idiotic and senseless, but the hot rod and surfing songs represent a way of life to many teenagers. Most of the death-type songs teach us a lesson that all teen-agers should learn. Just because some of them are death ballads by no means indicates a wish to die by teenagers. They only teach us not to be foolish while getting thrills...
...rod music-rock 'n' roll with a straight stick and no muffler-death emerges only in traffic safety parables...