Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Compensation. Near Long Beach, Calif., Harold Hartigan went duck hunting in Anaheim Slough, bagged a sea bass stranded by the tide; Don Jasiewicz went fishing for sea bass, snagged a duck that tried to snatch his bait...
...after the war, things didn't break too well for him-until he finally landed a job as a cop in Miami Beach. It seemed to be a job exactly suited for George's sharp-witted, broad-shouldered talents. After two years, he went up in the world, became a deputy sheriff and a right-hand man to the sheriff of Dade County (Miami...
Warm Ashes. If the abstractionists were mostly dry, the more traditional painters were soggy. Even the much-admired ones often succeeded by mere competence. Henry Koerner's blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith...
...only previous time that beach territory had interested detectives was a few days after the crime when Federal money bags were found in Peabody and Sangus. Police were probably thinking of the pea-jackets, or of the sailor knots used to tie two Brink's cashiers and three guards. They may have been thinking back 15 years to the second largest cash theft in history, when ten thugs with machine guns robbed an arptored car of $427,000 in Brooklya and escaped across Jamsica Bay in a high powered speed-boat. The money in that case was never recovered...
...horse-opera manufacturer named Harry Sherman. Boyd and Sherman made 54 Hopalong pictures. Then in 1943, because of rising costs, Sherman stopped producing them. Boyd made twelve more on his own hook, finally was forced to quit too. In 1947, at the age of 52, he was on the beach again, this time apparently for good. But he refused to believe he was through...