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...From Salmon to Smelt. With ice out, landlocked salmon were striking ferociously in Maine. Down through New England and the North Atlantic seaboard, the trout seasons opened with a flush of high water and goodly bags of 15-inchers. Michigan fishermen were out by the thousands, dropping night crawlers, minnows and plugs into the cold water. Some Michigan devotees, in non-trout waters, were taking so-called "rough fish," e.g., carp and suckers, by an ancient method: lantern fishing with a bow & arrow. Chicagoans were dipping for smelt along the lakefront, and Mississippians were getting ready to "hand-grab...
Painter Lloyd concentrates on color. "We live in a world of color," he says. "It's a tremendous study." Lloyd has gone at color like a salmon after a fly; he has spent months interviewing experts, thumbed all the books he can find on color theory, collected and catalogued samples of every hue of paint manufactured in the U.S. and abroad. He began by working out color harmonies of his own on swatches of canvas, finally switched to painting...
...Bring your own gun for duck hunting, shrimp fishing, crabbing, trolling for King Salmon, jigging for halibut, skiing, hiking, and walking," Rosemary Reilly-Baughm, the school's admissions director, said...
...colors of a Bonnard." Said a German critic: "Most of the younger Swiss artists behave like goldfish in a sheltered pond . . . Gubler stands out among these goldfish like a pike." A visitor, who had flown from Paris to see the show, more aptly compared Gubler to a salmon that has produced remarkably after a terrific uphill climb...
...effects last week. In Haiti, Dynaflow is used as a synonym for a wealthy man or an expensive product, e.g., "Isn't his new house Dynaflow?" (The name was first used as a term for politicians because they all drove Buicks with Dynaflow transmissions.) In Israel, salmon is known only as "fresh" because the label on a can of U.S. salmon always has the word in big letters. And in Greece, a pretty girl is a "nylon...