Word: sturgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigwigs of U.S. politics were likely to embark. Involved were no state troopers, autograph seekers, photographers, special trains or big names. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), balding Harold Stassen just got into his 1946 Ford sedan and drove from South St. Paul to Lake Michigan's Sturgeon Bay, with his wife, Esther, his children, Glen, u, and Kathleen, 5, and the family dog, Duke. At the end of the six-hour, 321-mile trip, he lugged suitcases into a small rented cottage, changed into faded Navy khaki and settled down for two weeks of loafing, swimming, reading...
Then he flew back to Sturgeon Bay and got back into old clothes again...
...kiss. In Lake Huron, where lampreys do the most damage, the trout catch last year fell to 41,000 Ibs. (It was 1,750,000 Ibs. in 1939.) Many trout caught showed lamprey scars. When trout get scarce, the lampreys go after rough-scaled perch or even armored sturgeon...
...Happy Sturgeon. When President and Mrs. Harry Truman honored Senator Arthur Vandenberg with a White House dinner, a casual spectator would never have noticed that Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor was numbered among the 90 guests. Shor, who looks like Gargantua* as a baby and who loves to greet his own clientele as "crum bums," was burstingly immaculate in white tie & tails, and acted as though he knew as much about the partitioning of Germany as Jimmy Byrnes...
...other parties were just as imposing. Hostess of the first was diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta, an Oklahoma heiress who zealously seines big names from Washington's social sea. The sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise...