Word: sailfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water off Panama's San José Islands in Panama Bay was rough, but the Schmidt boys, Louis Jr., 32, and John, 35, knew their business and were ready for anything-especially marlin. Said Louis, Sailfish are just one, two, three compared to marlin. Marlin are big, scarce, make spectacular leaps clear out of water -and they're good...
...conservative sponsors settle for sudsy little dramas. Prell shampoo peeps inside the U.S. bedroom to find a wife chiding her husband because his broad shoulders are sprinkled with dandruff. Camel presents vignettes in which someone, usually a pretty girl, battles a sailfish or performs involved dives from the high board. Then, by a process known as Sponsor's Logic, she ties up her athletic skill with her preference for Camels...
Babe Ruth, who spent most of the winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
...Florida's all right if you can keep from catching a sailfish and going to the expense of having it mounted...
When luck has been good, the boat churns back to dock about 5 p.m., flying a white flag from an outrigger, denoting that a sailfish has been landed. The first shore stop is usually Pflueger's taxidermist, whose charge for mounting sailfish is up from $10 to $12 a foot. The small-fry albacore, kingfish, bonito, dolphin and snappers (averaging from 6 to 12 Ibs.) are mostly extra gravy for the skipper-to sell, filleted...