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...profession. To actors, timing means not only pacing one's words and gestures to make them clear, but also establishing a rhythmic rapport with the audience. A theater audience is an unwieldy mass, and men who can control its feelings as a fly fisherman controls a trout are rare indeed. Rex is still working to dovetail his acting with the reactions of the audience, changes something in every performance. "The writer or director may not think the show has improved since it opened," he says. "From an acting point of view I believe it has, and will...
...Some who have tried: Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Dizzy Trout, Waite Hoyt, Gus Mancuso, Jack Graney, Harry Heilman, Gabby Street, Pie Traynor, Bump Hadley, Mickey Heath, Dizzy ("He slud into second") Dean, Buddy Blattner, Frankie Frisch...
...step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap into the treacherous waters to unsnag the towline and break surface with it like a trout...
...courthouse steps. So Dove Linkhorn rides the rods, just as Algren himself did during the Depression, and before long he winds up in New Orleans. Almost immediately he is caught up in a surrealist country of thieves, grifters, pimps and prostitutes. Here he thrives as naturally as a trout in clean running water. For a while he works in a contraceptive factory run by an ex-abortionist. And near the end he becomes the fancy boy of the prostitute with the biggest heart of all. Jailed, then brutally beaten into blindness by his woman's former lover, he goes...
...Flint campus of the University of Michigan, which will open next September. One of its main structures: the Harlow H. Curtice Academic Building. Flint's adult education program has an enrollment of 40,000 people, who study everything from classical languages to the fine art of tying trout flies. The Flint Community Music Association comprises 42 independent groups, including a symphony orchestra, civic opera, and square dances that draw as many as 5,000 people-dancers...