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Considering the urge to merge
Those readers of a certain age will remember [Harry Varley]. He retired youngish and well-to- do after a career which in ways I have forgotten led the British native from success as a free-lance writer in New York to the presidency of the Schick Razor Co. -- the one, he was quick to say, which produced the real Schick razor. That was the one with little blades which slipped in from a dispenser which had a brass blank second from the last one to put in your pocket to remind you to buy a new cartridge. He had nothing to do with the Schick electric shaver, which he considered a corporate obscenity. Somehow, before my day, he and his wife, a former Powers model, found Anna Maria Island to retire to. Varley soon became bored, so he founded The Islander. When I came to town, he spotted me as a man quick to argue and so we became friends. Soon after the end of World War II, the city of Manatee, which ran from First Street eastward to the Braden River (or thereabouts), and the city of Bradenton, which ran from First Street westward to 34th Street West, merged by referendum. It was done at the request of leaders of the city of Manatee, which was just about bankrupt. The \"Manatee District\" got two council seats; the city of Bradenton got City Hall.
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An island divided, but colorful
[Harry Varley] was editor, owner and chief agitator of The Islander, a spritely, slick-paper weekly in the mid-'50s, when I first came to town happily ready to lead everybody out of the wilderness. I'm not sure -- he may also have been the founder. But, all due respects to present and other previous owners and publishers, it was in its effervescent heyday then as the Island publication. Varley was retired president of the Schick Razor Co. He wanted you to understand that what he referred to was the real Schick razor, that intriguing small-blade shaving instrument to which its users (I was one until I could afford the electric brand) tended to be addicted. To him the electrified version was only a glorified version of barber's shears. [Anna Maria] city has occasionally provided the news from the Island, but neither it nor Bradenton Beach ever cottoned to the idea of an island potentially controlled by Holmes Beach. That center part of the Island was last to develop, though it once hosted a filming crew for a movie with Esther Williams in it. A developer named Jack Holmes built a good many houses in it and under circumstances which predated my arrival got it incorporated and named for himself. Varley, and a few others out there, never accepted this as just, reasonable or permanent.
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FISHING BRIDGE SAGA IT'S A TALE OF A FAMOUS BRIDGE, A GRIZZLY BEAR, AND A BURG \AMERICA UP CLOSE\ IS A SERIES THAT LOOKS AT LIFE AROUND THE COUNTRY. IT RUNS EVERY THURSDAY INSIDE THE A SECTION
John Varley, Yellowstone's chief manager of bears, said Fishing Bridge sits at the choke point of the busiest migration route, what he calls a \"grizzly bear freeway,\" in the lower 48 states. \"And Fishing Bridge is killing our bears,\" Varley added.
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