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Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...
...reception given in his honor by Octavio da Souza Dantas, Miller got talking with portly (240 lbs.) Augusto Frederico Schmidt, poet, businessman and columnist. Between nibbles of crisp shrimp patties, Schmidt waxed eloquent on political matters. Next day, in his column in Rio's influential Correio da Manhā, he developed his thoughts in an open letter to Miller and, indirectly...
...audience at Los Angeles' Encino Theater was just settling back to watchShelley Winters sin in South Sea Sinner when a tuxedoed headwaiter from Ciro's marched down the center aisle. Behind him came two red-coated flunkies, ceremoniously bearing aloft a jumbo-sized shrimp cocktail. They halted and served it to a hefty customer three seats off the aisle. Then came Squab under Glass, Caesar Salad, Cherries Jubilee (in flaming brandy). By the time Erskine Johnson had eaten his way to the check ($12.65), the audience was also fed up; it chorused, "Throw...
That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...
...that looks like a long pipe with a row of lights along it. I don't know what it is. The tentacles of an octopus just dragged by, showering sparks." At 1,750: "The headphones are getting cold." At 2,500: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit." After passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with me. He might know what some of these things are..." A little later: "Let's hold up here...