Word: angler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the lowly flounder to the lordly broadbill swordfish, Angler Heilner loves them all. To each he devotes a chapter- weakfish, bluefish, striped and channel bass, sailfish, marlin, tuna, tarpon, and a definitive essay on the bonefish, wiliest of all-setting at the end of each chapter an extremely useful condensed guide for the handling of each species...
...book's frontispiece presents Angler Heilner's sporting credentials: a picture of himself and Zane Grey taken at Long Key, Fla. in 1916. If Mr. Grey, 62, is the senior prophet of ocean game fishing in America, certainly Van Campen Heilner, 37, is its junior dean. He is at dutiful pains throughout his easy-going pages to give credit where due to the men who have made game fishing into a well-defined national sport. Examples: To oldtime Charley Thompson, credit for guiding the first party to take a sailfish on rod & reel, in 1901, after...
...nature is Angler Heilner's province. He has worked for the American Museum of Natural History; indeed it was while investigating a new finch, a rail and a wren for them that he discovered for sportsmen the tarpon of Cuba, in the Encantado (Enchanted) River. His fishing lexicon is shot richly through with biological side glances. It is interesting to know that the jutla (arboreal rat) of Cuba is that island's only native mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north...
That Mr. Pickwick was not an original creation of Charles Dickens is illustrated by "Maxims and Hints for an Angler," by Robert Seymour. The pictures in this book show a short, pudgy figure with glasses on the end of his nose and with a long tail coat, the exact counterpart of Dickens' famous character. The fact is that Dickens probably derived the idea from the drawings of Seymour...
...Angler Hockey trophy goes to the player showing the "greatest general improvement during the year," and this is the fifth time it has been awarded since Donald Angier '22 presented it. Claflin, on the freshman and jayvees squads, was a defenseman on this year's championship five...