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There are 1,500,000 archery addicts in the U. S. Most of these toxophilites are content with target shooting or flight shooting (for distance). But some 15,000 are Cock Robin killers: they want to kill something with their bows & arrows.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Chattahoochee | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

The 20 expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Chattahoochee | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA: Moon of Mah-No-Men | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Into action went potent Publisher Carter. In a two-column, front-page editorial entitled Mr. Budd Bows His Neck he blazed away at Burlington President Ralph Budd (member of Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission) "for sacrificing the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway on the altar of Burlington front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Southwestern Hospitality | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

In Copenhagen, a theatre critic was challenged to a duel for making nasty cracks about an actor's lady friend. Because Denmark's Nazi conquerors have put a strict ban on firearms for Danes, the critic chose bows & arrows, ended the encounter at his second shot by pinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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