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...Image. First there was the bright 20-year-old, freelancing formula features at $10 apiece to the Toronto Star Weekly. Next came Hemingway at 23, foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, filing color stories on the Greco-Turkish war and the Genoa Economic Conference, along with vignettes of trout fishing in Germany and the "king business" in Europe. Some of that early stuff was basic Hemingway: clear as glass. He attended a prestigious press conference given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator...
...Gamble. Havasu (the name means "blue water" in Navaho) lures newcomers with its sun (annual rainfall is a mere five inches), space, desert air and trout-filled lake, made to order for thousands of fishermen, campers, water skiers and motorboat racers. It was the lake that caught the fancy of McCulloch Oil President Robert Paxton McCulloch, now 56, when he first flew over it in 1958. McCulloch, who is also the world's largest manufacturer of chain saws and No. 3 maker of outboard motors, was searching for a freshwater site on which to test his engines. After buying...
...agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren't a trout." The developers will also set up a gristmill to make Mammy Yokum cornmeal and hire a justice of the peace to perform as "Marryin...
...Frank Trout, Curator of Maps for the University Library, found an old report of a 1931 archeological expedition which said this map had been discovered and would soon be placed in the Semitic Museum at Harvard. Trout had never heard of the Semitic Museum, but he investigated and found out where it stood...
...podium, the other to the control room. Their anchorman could not make much sense out of anything. "It was as bad a job as I have ever done," he remembers. Completely agreeing, CBS replaced him at the Democratic Convention with the team of Roger Mudd and Bob Trout. The replacement got even worse ratings than Cronkite...