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...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...
Sharp official eyes search the gay streets of the Greek quarter of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Alien sponge divers (TIME, Jan. 21) move aside, shift their glance away. Along the waterfront, among the gaudy antique boats', has gone the whispered warning: U. S. Immigration inspectors are about the town to check smuggling of aliens. Every stranger is a suspect...
...years the Greek colony of Tarpon Springs has had the local deep sea sponge diving industry to itself. Americans were not interested. Then came the immigration quota law. New recruits from Greece fell off. The new generation of native-born Greeks would not fill up the ranks. By dint of much bickering with government officials an occasional batch of 50 Greek divers would be admitted temporarily, for six months...
...among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped up from the deeps of Spring Bayou, holding high in his hand the dripping bronze cross...
Eight thousand visitors that day thronged Tarpon Springs, for in the course of years the Feast of the Blessing of the Waters has come to be one of the events of the Florida season. Unable to find seats in the small frame church of St. Nicholas, they clustered about, listening to the ardent chants of the Greek Orthodox liturgy that swelled inside, burst passionately on the sunny tranquillity of midmorning. Archbishop Alexander, head of the church in all the New World, had come from New York to preside at the ceremonies...