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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...
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...
PETER HAHN Tarpon Springs...
Instead he wanders from one expensive muscular pursuit to another, shooting rapids and doves, fishing wahoo and tarpon, doing each deed seriously and well with the finest equipment, at precisely the spot in the hemisphere where it is to be done best. No special portent is involved here; one of the novel's considerable virtues is that Blake's frivolous output of ergs is not intended to signify the decline of the West...
...trout. Surprisingly, they sometimes make a catch. Off Ecuador last year, Lee Wulff patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same fly rod last year to catch a 5-lb. brook trout in Canada and a 92-lb. tarpon in Florida...