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...show biz. Yet a certain diffidence adhered to Crosby even as a celebrity. In his artistry, he owned the natural jazzman's gift of blending with rather than blaring against an ensemble of fellow performers-a knack never used better than in the scatty and mellow duets (Gone Fishin', for one) that he recorded with Armstrong. A similar trait made his private life seem actually private in contrast to the typical Hollywood star's. He had his troubles, heartbreak at times in his marriage to hard-drinking Dixie Lee, who died of cancer in 1952, and again...
Sweet Smell. A schoolmate recollects: "At eight or nine, when most boys were talkin' fishin', huntin' and playin' hooky, Howard Henry was talkin' jurisprudence and double jeopardy." He graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949, then joined the law firm founded by his paternal grandfather in 1885. Young Baker quickly earned a reputation as a shrewd cross-examiner in courtroom exchanges. His natural proclivities for politics were cemented by his marriage to Joy Dirksen, only child of the late, grandiloquent Senator from Illinois...
Robin Scott Wilson's "Gone Fishin'" projects an incredible mingling of cold war and black power ideologies. No classic science fiction fan could do anything but gape and laugh at a hero who is described as a fourteen-year old German Negro serving the Americans as an anti-Soviet, telepathic...
...cricks and get maybe 2,500 to 4,500 salmon, just to feed our teams. But then the state fish and game people stopped us from usin' the fish wheel. Then they stopped us from usin' nets, and then they closed it altogether for that type of fishin...
...theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming, elk from Montana, bear from Georgia-not to mention coon, possum, squirrel and deer from his own 100,000-acre preserve in Alabama...