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Singing to Shrimp. Before she could make the big time, Jo needed glamorizing. Thyroid pills and strict dieting cut her down to 135 pounds in six months. ("No matter how much grass you eat, those hot rolls and butter are what you miss.") To give her a widow's-peak hairline, a hairdresser yanked out chunks of her hair. The rest of her hair, which was once brown, was dyed...
...manager booked her into a fancy Manhattan cellar, La Martinique. She hated it. "The first show everybody's eating shrimp while you're singing your heart out. The second show they're all slightly tight. The third show they're loaded." She went from there to the Paramount Theater and later a 26-week contract alternating with Perry Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records...
...tropics. In spring they move poleward, spend the summer in arctic or antarctic waters. Here the surface swarms with "krill," or free-swimming crustaceans, which they strain out of the water with the whalebone sieves in their mouths. A favorite kind of krill is a large, seagoing shrimp...
...pirogue, built with patient skill by Uncle Emile, was made of heart cypress, and practically walked the water. Cajuns say that a pirogue is so delicately balanced that shifting a cud of tobacco from one cheek to another is enough to upset it. But skilled Cajuns cast heavy shrimp nets, go hunting, catch alligators and attend funerals in them without ever getting their feet wet. And they make them go much faster than canoes...
Ultrasonic Shrimp. As" one means of detecting enemy submarines, the Navy used sonar, a device which bounced off them beams of sound waves too short for reception by the human ear. But in subtropical waters a kind of shrimp interfered: the snapping of their claws made these same "ultrasonic" sounds. Enemy submarines, the Navy feared, might hide behind this interference. As it turned out, "ultrasonic" shrimp did not exist where German U-boats most commonly cruised; but the)' did live in the waters off Japan, and U.S. submarines hid from listening Japanese behind the noise of the shrimps...