Word: torkellson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio announcer broadcast a weigh-by-weigh description of the catches. At 9 o'clock, when the all-in bomb went off, 75 salmon were lined up on the display table. Largest was a 27-lb., 5-oz. King, boated by a 19-year-old girl, Lily Torkellson of suburban Seattle...
Great was the cheering, for Lily Torkellson, who had never fingered a fishing rod until last spring, was the first woman to be crowned Champion Saltwater Fisherman of Puget Sound. After mumbling a few words over a nationwide radio hookup, Champion Torkellson drove away in a Deluxe De Soto sedan-followed by four lesser prizewinners, all driving De Soto sedans...
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