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Hook, Line & Sinker. In San Francisco Bay, novice Angler Mrs. Woodward Melone innocently followed her husband's mischievous advice, caught two sharks by baiting her hook with bacon, tomato, and geranium...
John Alden Knight holds that there is "one nice thing about fishing-you can always put 'em back." He is not the kind of angler who takes the limit catch. But his splashingly successful four-month-old syndicated newspaper feature is helping fishermen in 35 states and three Canadian provinces hook more trout, bass and muskies than ever before...
...There are only two occasions," observed Herbert Hoover, "when the American people respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing so some Presidents have gone fishing." In a radio round-table discussion of The Compleat Angler, Fisherman Hoover reminisced about Fisherman Calvin Coolidge: "He was a good deal of a fundamentalist in economics, government, and fishing, so he naturally preferred angleworms. But . . . he took to artificial flies. However, his backcast was so much a common danger that even the secret service men kept at a distance until they were summoned to climb trees to retrieve his flies...
Invitation to Learning. (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Ex-President Herbert Hoover, an infrequent radio performer, discusses Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler...
Recently Smokey made for the lunch basket of Angler Richard Delaney, and Delaney tried to fend him off. Smokey promptly pushed the fisherman into the river. Delaney sued, and last week an Evesham judge awarded him ?37 75 damages. But Evesham's mayor and corporation were loyal to the end. "Why should we sack Smokey?" they said. "He's a nice old fellow...