Word: sailfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami, the average fisherman, a landlubber, dashes down to Pier 5 before 8 a.m. He buys a box lunch at the Trade Winds Restaurant (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...
Frannie Powers, fresh from the Florida sunshine, is expected to try the sprint events tonight. He is reported to have caused much anxiety among lifeguards around Miami because of his long training swims seaward during which he was frequently mistaken for a sailfish by the fishing ernisers which abound in those waters...