Word: amberjack
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...later wrote Submarine!, the liveliest and most authentic account of underseas combat to come out of World War II. He began his sub service aboard the renowned Trigger, which sank at least 27 Japanese ships, wound up the war with his own command. As postwar skipper of the Amberjack, he made himself a terror to carrier admirals during war games. His favorite trick was to sneak up on a carrier, photograph her through his periscope, mail the admiral a print with "Regards from Ned Beach and the Amberjack...
...ichthyotoxism. It is not to be confused with poisoning caused by the bite of a venomous fish, however, or by eating stale fish in which bacteria have been at work. It comes from eating fresh, healthy fish, of species that have been used as food for generations, e.g., the amberjack that poisoned the naval officer...
...fisherman's luck. Back in Panama the natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery); out in the Pacific he was most likely swearing at it. Score reported at week's end: one blue crevally, one amberjack, two small fish, one broken line, three bait-raiding sea gulls...
...destination. Son James took the Bernadou back to Boston to vote as a delegate in Massachusetts' Repeal convention. Scheduled to return on the Bernadou was Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, just back from the Geneva Arms Conference. He and the President would talk things over as the Amberjack II cruised north into colder weather...
...Amberjack II came reports that her Skipper-President had told Professor Moley to take up U. S.-Russian recognition at the World Conference with moon-faced twinkly-eyed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. In London last week correspondents noticed that Comrade Litvinov, once accustomed to being snubbed by Statesman Stimson at Geneva, now hobnobs in friendly fashion with Snubber Stimson's successor, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the lobbying skirmish fortnight ago to get Vice Chief U. S. Delegate Cox elected Chairman of the Conference Monetary Committee (TIME, June 26), Comrade Litvinov battled from the first...