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Annie, now 45, got her start as a girl of 18 when she shared a boat with her father for a year. From then on, she fished alone. She can handle her own gear: 32 lines for cod, 100 lobster pots (most of which she made herself), eight nets for herring, mackerel and other ground fish, two rowboats and a 23-foot motorboat. She first qualified for the Dominion government fishing bounty* 17 years ago, has just got her latest $8.75 check for the 5,000 pounds of fish she caught...
...from Lethbridge, and the 18th Field Regiment from Great Falls, Mont. Over a symbolic arch on the border roared U.S. and Canadian planes. The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard-surfaced highway from the border town of Coutts to Lethbridge. It was also the start of Alberta's drive for U.S. tourists. Governor General Alexander, who cut the ribbon, added that he hoped the highway "might happily serve its noble purpose...
Bloch: String Quartet No. 2 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; International, 8 sides). Good, but not the most brilliant Bloch. He got off to a fine start but faltered along the way. Performance: fair...
...another rider rammed him right after the start of the Cowdin Stakes at Aqueduct. Arcaro saw red. He wheeled his horse out, cracked him with the whip and went after the offender. "I must have done that next eighth in 10 flat," he says. He caught up with the other jockey, Vincent Nodarse, and al most put him over the fence. The stewards called Arcaro up to the stand, asked him if he had done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could...
...three weeks, President Thomas Braniff expects to start flying his new routes from Houston, Tex. to Lima, Peru; eventually he will fly to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The routes cut straight across the juicy domains once monopolized by Pan American Airways and Pan American-Grace (Panagra flies the West Coast, Pan Am the East). Both lines opposed Braniff's entry on the ground that the territory could not support a third U.S. flag line. But President Truman, taking the matter out of CAB's hands, gave Braniff the routes...