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Fryer received the Donald Angler Hockey Trophy for his general improvement during the season just completed. Kinasewich was also awarded a huge trophy for being the most valuable player in the Boston Garden Christmas Festival, during which the Crimson decisively knocked off northern powerhouses Toronto and Minnesota...
...with a long series of electrified tin fish. Small trout passing through it will get scare after scare and emerge fully trained for life in a dangerous river. But the biologist is still bothered. Why should successful students grow to bright-colored maturity only to be caught on an angler's hook? "I have become so fond of the lovely rainbow trout," he says with a tender smile, "that I may start another project to teach them to stay away from hooks. It should be easy enough. Rainbow trout are really smart...
...racing away in water-spraying terror, ripping off 100 yds. or more of line, straightening hooks, breaking swivels, or maybe snarling the whole shebang around a clump of mangroves. A little six-pounder can snap an 8-lb.-test line, and a big one takes all the luck an angler can muster. Recalls Golfer Sam Snead, who set a class record that still stands by catching a 15-pounder in 1953: "I was using live shrimp. I overcast, and had to feed the line back to get it to him. God, did he take it! He took...
...Compleat Angler. Nonetheless, Gromyko trusts "Milord" Home enough to converse with him in English when they are alone, and Soviet admirers dubbed him respectfully the "Western Mo'otov." Laborites accused him of being rigidly antiCommunist, but Home was always ready to negotiate problems when he thought that there was any hope. When dealing with the Russians, said Compleat Angler Home, "I go trying for a fish. If nothing bites, I go back the next day. If a small fish bites, I go after a bigger...
Best bit: Jerry, always helpful, grabs a fish pole from a lady angler when she gets a bite, yanks on it hard, loses the fish, staggers backward, tangles poles with another angler, staggers backward knocking over anglers, poles, bait buckets, lunch baskets and trash cans, till at last he winds up splat in the middle of the first this-is-me-and-the-big-fish-I-caught snapshot ever taken with the subject's head in the fish's mouth...