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Greeley was chosen with Dick Clasby, his other wing, to play on the college all-stars against the U.S. Olympic team in January and last year he won the Angler Trophy for the most improved varsity hockey player...
Auriol is a proficient angler and fancies himself a proficient hunter. At the big official hunt parties given every year on the presidential country estate of Rambouillet, M. and Mme. Auriol attain a high pitch of activity. Michèle Auriol scurries about directing the beaters to drive copious supplies of game in the direction of favored guests. Vincent with his gun swivels wildly to & fro. Those who know his aim and love their lives, duck. He good-naturedly contradicts any suggestion that somebody else brought down the bird at which he thought he aimed...
...torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung its nose toward Mecca...
...TIME'S Aug. 7 intrepid angler who caught "both fish & foul" [he claimed that a fish grabbed one hook and a bat the other...
...House subcommittee decided that "a discernible degree of fortuity attends" upon fishing, but "the skill of the angler overwhelmingly predominates in a successful performance." The subcommittee recommended, and the Senate and House unanimously passed, a measure excluding fishing contests from lottery laws. Last week, the President signed...