Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S." [TIME, July 12]. What experts? And why better than the Beaverkill or Willowemoc in the Catskills; the West Branch Ausable...
Adirondacks; the West Branch Penobscot in Maine; Frying Pan Creek, out of Aspen, in Colorado; or the Gunnison, in southern Colorado ? Sun Valley has a trick of producing an expansive spirit in writers, as I know. But is Silver Creek really that good...
...Pious Branch Rickey on a couple of hired hands, past & present: "Burt Shotton is a good manager and gentleman . . . Leo Durocher is a good manager...
Lucky Leo. Only a few insiders knew how extremely available Leo was. His trouble dated from the Fourth of July too. That was the day the Dodger road secretary took Leo aside at Ebbets Field and said: "I hate to tell you this, Leo, but the boss [Branch Rickey] wants you to resign." What had he done this time, Leo wanted to know. "Oh, nothing at all," said the boss's emissary, retreating...
Whittemore will carry the modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...