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...Guillermo Meza was one of the youngest and most gifted of the Mexicans shown in Manhattan. His masterful painting of a surf-wearied swimmer got some of the ebb and crash of its title, The Sea. Meza took up painting because he did not have enough money for music lessons. He wanted to be a strolling musician; now he paints twelve hours...
Touché. In Honolulu, surf Fisherman Manuel Silva, who had innocently turned his back on a swordfish, was taken to a hospital and treated for a "deep puncture" in the seat of the pants...
When the summer moon is full and the tide is high, the grunion run in Southern California. The grunion (rhymes with bunion) are small (6-in.), smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...
...jammed the highway from Malibu to Santa Monica; beach fires crackled from Long Beach to San Diego. As usual, some of the grunion hunters cuddled in the shadows, glad to forget the original purpose of their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since the tide often reaches its peak about midnight, grunion parties usually run late and long. Some end in a rousing pre-dawn fish...
Most notable grunioneer was hefty, fun-loving Governor Earl Warren, vacationing with his family at Santa Monica. He became an uninhibited thrasher in the surf, risked undignified dunkings groping for grunion. But for all his delighted flopping-about he caught only two. His ten-year-old son, Bobby...