Word: angler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since it was published, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler has occupied a sure place as one of the most popular of English classics-and earned its author a reputation as one of the most genial of men. A onetime ironmonger, Walton wrote not for money but for pleasure, hoped each reader would share that pleasure and "that (if he be an honest Angler) the East wind may never blow when he goes a Fishing." But from Princeton University last week an ill wind did blow, setting many an honest angler to wondering whether their gentle idol...
...cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler fish, looking like nothing but a clump of seaweed, sprouts a fishing pole from its nose, and dangles a tempting piece of built-in bait before a passing mullet. Conclusion: mullet into gullet like a bullet...
ROUGH WINDS OF MAY, by Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds...
Captain R. Norman Wood '54 of Marble-head and Winthrop House received the John Tudor Memorial Cup, established in 1929 and awarded each year to the most valuable member of the team. Captain-elect W. Scott Cooledge III '55 of Arlington and Winthrop House received the Donald Angler Trophy for the most-improved player on the team...
...trespasser was Angler Eisenhower: he was invited to fish the South Platte River on the ranch of a friend, Denver Banker Bal F. Swan...