Word: shoestringer
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"It's like holding a horse on a shoestring." See SPORT, Shark-Eating Men.
Silly fellow. On those frequent days when the marlin are lunching someplace else and the tuna are laughing at lures, the smart thing to do is catch a shark. He may or may not be pretty, but he's always there, he's always big, and he'...
Most go home grateful for the experience. "Something has been added to my life," says Jim Bigelow, a 20-year-old junior at the University of the Pacific. "Something you cannot know until you've worked on a project of this type. This is not education. This is life...
It is a craft and technique that has to be learned the hard way. Manhattan-born Eddie Anhalt began when he left Columbia University in his sophomore year. First he turned to film editing, shoestring documentaries, pulp fiction, and eventually grade-B pictures. "The film story could be anything I...
Died. Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, 68, the indomitable Burma surgeon who, starting in 1922, built up a 250-bed hospital in the wild northern hill country near China, there supervising the treatment of some 17,000 patients yearly despite his own ill health (TB, dysentery, bubonic plague, beriberi) and a...