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...equipment consisted of a 20-year-old oak rod, an 18-year-old reel and a 36-thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
...last week's Christian Century, is based on the proposition that modern war is something no Christian should support. The church, he says, should proclaim the words of Jesus, "He that would save his life shall lose it," instead of "remaining silent when the tempters try to bait poor human victims for their bloody business by suggesting that it is the church that must be defended, or Christianity, or the Christian Occident...
Rods, Reels & Waders. In addition to a comprehensive river-by-river and lake-by-lake inventory of Canadian and U.S. fish, Fishing is full of information on everything from rods, reels and waders to gaff hooks, bait boxes and barometers...
...lake and lower a pail of chopped vegetables to it every day for a week. By that time the carp, who are mainly vegetarians, should be using that spot for a feeding ground. A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait. Cast it near the feeding ground, give it a foot of slack line, "set" the hook as soon as the outsmarted carp starts moving away. If he is played away from his feeding ground, "other carp will not be frightened and as many as four or five . . . may be taken...
...argued Heckscher. The Post's old friends "are not actually averse to sex. [But they dislike] having their sex dished up as bait. The only thing worse than an obviously bad paper is a paper . . . which is obviously good and makes ugly sounds as a matter of deliberate policy. . ." He thought that the Post had almost run the gamut of sex and sensation, predicted that it would soon inspire "a feeling not only of boredom but of distaste and revulsion." Concluded Heckscher: "A newspaper is neither read nor edited in watertight compartments. A liberal newspaper must be liberal...