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Those South American trout mentioned in your June 2 story could be used for bait to catch some Priest Lake (Idaho) Mackinaw trout. One recent catch weighed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1952 | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...week's end Ike held his second press conference with some 150 newsmen in Manhattan. When an eccentric jumped up and began to bait Ike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he was greeted by jeers. After Ike calmly answered his question, reporters themselves broke into the same spontaneous applause and cheering that had offended them at the first conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trial by Press Conference | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak. I held on maybe five seconds, and he straightened the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...main argument given for this attempt to secure government enforcement of price-fixing is that it protects retailers from "loss-leader" advertising. (Large stores sometimes offer a standard brand product at low prices as bait to attract customers.) McGuire Bill proponents say that this price cutting "fences in" other retailers and they develop this into the argument that Fair Trade is good because it restores freedom of opportunity. IN this special sense it may be "fairer" to the small retailer to enforce price levels on everybody else that are profitable for him. But the McGuire Bill certainly makes terms like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair Enterprise | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...took them for a boat ride, and showed them the best spot for fishing. One young lady refused to bait her hook with a live worm, and received instead an artificial lure. After the ride they went to a party where the cheer flowed so freely that five of the subjects developed wretched hangovers when Morton told them it was the morning after...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Power of the Mind | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

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