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...harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...
...immediate danger," he replied to newsmen. "In no case do I think the Soviet Union would risk becoming the aggressor." Then he added that he is against blocs and spheres of influence and that the best way to settle international disputes is through the U.N. Like a clever angler, Totalitarian Tito hoped to hook more Western support with his new tactical line...
...same dinner tow seniors were presented awards for their performances this season. Goalie John 'Chase was awarded the John Angler trophy for being "the most improved player." Shorty Minot, who played third line wing this year, received the John Tudor trophy for contributing "the best team spirit...
Among the new faces have been Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall, Harold Stassen, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton. James Farley was a panel member on Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. The biggest mail response was won by a discussion of Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, but that was probably more a tribute to Panel Member Herbert Hoover than to Walton's book. Once, when Invitation was rated by Hooper, Racine's Phedre, for some unexplained reason, scored highest. Lowest was Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer...
...Compleat Angler. No old tale or new notion was unworthy of Aubrey's attention-for "these curiosities," he said, "would be quite forgotten, did not such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh...