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...these circumstances, the President saw the necessity of appeasing both parties with the same candy. To the farmers was to go the promise to raise prices further; to the bankers the pledge of a "managed" reflation followed by stabilization. It appears, however, that the bait tastes quite differently to different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their...
...observations are not unique with him, that fish are all short-sighted "because even in the best-lighted water no eyes can see very far," that all fish eyes are flat in front, that "fish are about all color blind" and can distinguish the colors of gay bait "only as various shades of grey, precisely as a color-blind person would." that fish can scarcely see anything below the level of their heads, that the pupils of fish eyes are almost always round, but never oval, that fish pupils contract only a little in strong light, that fish have...
Last month Tilden dangled the bait again, this time $25,000 down, $25,000 guaranteed profits from "byproducts" (i.e., endorsements). All Vines had to do was join Tilden and Frenchman Henri Cochet on an eight-month playing tour beginning next January with a Vines-Tilden match in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tilden planned to call the tour a "professional Davis Cup series." He slyly reminded Vines that his amateur career, begun so spectacularly, seemed to have fizzled. Sadly Vines agreed that he "was dead, killed by too much tennis and too many officials." Last week he took...
...into their pound nets and tore them up. Rod & reel fishermen taught the commercial men to call the monster by his right name, tuna. "With their sporting tackle they trolled for his little brothers, up to 90 lb. or so, secretly grateful that no real grown-ups hit the bait...
...tuna are too lazy to chase a moving bait. Fisherman Francis H. Low knew, when he learned from market fishermen where some big tuna had been sighted, that the thing to do was anchor his 22-ft. seaskiff and put out a chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker, bait a huge swordfish hook with a whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five...