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Running Hard. Johnny and Manager Noga are playing the big time with all the care and finesse of deep-sea fishermen hooked into prize tuna. Johnny has abandoned his ambition to be a pure jazz singer ("not profitable"), has carefully cultivated the delicate art of wooing local disk jockeys. So far, he has been seasoning himself in small clubs, avoiding the gaudier barns on the theory that "I haven't yet got the ability of a Lena Home to take a thousand people and bring them down to the size of a fist...
...purpose of the Seminar is to introduce the participating students to the sport of giant tuna fishing and to provide them with expert instruction in fishing techniques. The program will consist of evening lectures on the identification, distribution, and economics of big game fish such as tuna, black marlin, and striped marlin. During the day techniques will be demonstrated in the course of actual fishing...
Yale's Game Fish and Tuna Match, Yale points out, is much more than a fishing match. Although part of the success of the original 1956 match was the capturing of a 630 pound tuna by Al Wood-Prince, captain of Yale's team, the sponsors "were also gratified" by the number of local fishermen who joined the overflow audiences...
...objects, from spinach to deer horns, for strontium 90, and found a wide variation. Tea plants, for instance, contained 30 "units"* while spinach had only 3.8. Rice, all important in Japan, was comparatively high (10.4 units), but shellfish from Tokyo Bay had only .04 units. Highest count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units for a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing...
...Sinking in a sailboat off Catalina Island, Calif., three Roman Catholic priests were rescued by a passing tuna boat. "We were so busy pumping out water," one of them reported, "that we didn't have time to think about praying...