Word: fishinger
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The Navy had counted on terrible destruction at Bikini to forestall homesickness. But the bomb, terrible enough by white men's standards, had not felled a single spindly palm on Bikini's scraggly head. The surrounding water was still dangerously radioactive last week-but that meant nothing to...
Two years ago the frown would have stayed. Few around Puget Sound bothered to inquire about Nick Bez until he was photographed rowing the boat as President Truman fished for salmon in Puget Sound in 1945 (see cut). Puget Sounders learned that hard-muscled, hard-talking Nick Bez was quite...
Born 51 years ago on the island of Brae off the coast of Yugoslavia, "Big Nick" came to the U.S. with $1.50 in cash, at 15. He started out fishing for smelts in a borrowed rowboat, was master of a big salmon boat, a purse seiner, within six years. In...
Johnny Frenchman (J. Arthur Rank-Universal) explores a novel and fascinating locale: a Cornish fishing village and its Breton counterpart across the Channel. The picture also preaches a worthy moral: "People of good will are pretty much the same, no matter what language they speak."
The documentary details of British and French village life-the seining, fishing, pubbing, etc.-are shrewdly observed and handsomely photographed. The backgrounds and bit-players are so excellent, in fact, that the routine Montague-Capulet romance is an intrusion. With the exception of Franchise Rosay, famed French cinemactress (Carnival in...