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Word: tarpon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better come out, we know who you are!" bellowed the FBI agent standing outside the door to a $130-a-day suite at the smart Innisbrook resort complex at Tarpon Springs, Fla. So ended a two-week hunt for the elusive Alan Abrams, the bail-jumping Boston commodity-options con man (TIME, Jan. 30) who, it is charged, under the alias "James Carr" swindled U.S. investors out of as much as $75 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Con Man's End | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...reluctance to smooth away the traces of making the sculpture (bolts always show, surfaces are always hand-painted rather than sprayed), that gives such life to his stabiles-Calderese for static sculptures. They are by turns as graceful as plants, as energetic in profile as a jumping tarpon: Calder's sense of edge is unfailing. Partly because they are assembled from sheet steel and do not dislodge great lumps of space, they also have a light, affable air to them. The larger, recent mobiles are rather less exhilarating, at least when hung in a museum: the response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Calder's Universe | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Died. Lois Lenski, 80, illustrator and author of more than 50 children's books (Strawberry Girl, Judy's Journey); in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Lenski's well-researched tales of children in a variety of environments earned her a Newberry Medal in 1946 and top honors from the Child Study Association of America a year later. "Through movies, mass magazines and radio," she once said, "we get the idea that we all live alike. But it's not true at all. This is what I'm showing the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 23, 1974 | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

When the call came from Haig offering the job of presidential lawyer, St. Clair had just checked his family into a resort at Tarpon Springs, Fla. He had to cut the golfing vacation short, and it may be his last holiday for many months. "I have no commitment and no contract," he says, "but as a practical matter, I'm employed for the duration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Lawyer: A Punishing Adversary | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

PETER HAHN Tarpon Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1973 | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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