Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, April 25, 1994 TAG: 9404250017
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He blew his way to the national whistling championship Saturday at the 21st annual National Whistler's Convention in Louisburg, N.C., with a rendition of Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba," beating out 21 other finalists.
Ullman, press secretary to U.S. Rep. Rod Grams of Minnesota, has whistled on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and other radio and TV programs.
No word on whether he whistles while he works.
Remember the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue?" Meet Trout.
His new full name is Trout Fishing in America.
Judge Patrick McMahon thought the idea sounded fishy, but he signed papers last week in Santa Barbara, Calif., officially changing 17-year-old Peter Eastman Jr.'s name. "This may cause you no end of trouble in your life," McMahon cautioned.
Trout said he wanted to name himself after Richard Brautigan's 1967 counterculture book "Trout Fishing in America."
Trout said he made it through one of the toughest tests when police stopped him for driving through a red light. "I signed the ticket `Trout America,' " he said. "The police didn't say a word."
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