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...There are only two occasions," observed Herbert Hoover, "when the American people respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing ­ so some Presidents have gone fishing." In a radio round-table discussion of The Compleat Angler, Fisherman Hoover reminisced about Fisherman Calvin Coolidge: "He was a good deal of a fundamentalist in economics, government, and fishing, so he naturally preferred angleworms. But . . . he took to artificial flies. However, his backcast was so much a common danger that even the secret service men kept at a distance until they were summoned to climb trees to retrieve his flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Sources | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Invitation to Learning. (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Ex-President Herbert Hoover, an infrequent radio performer, discusses Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...week the No. 1 U.S. medical publishing house placed a sizable bet on the general practitioner's future: a five-volume, monumental compendium of modern medical knowledge (An Integrated Practice of Medicine, W. B. Saunders Co., $50). Its aim: to make the family doctor an up-to-date, "compleat practitioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Compleat Practitioner | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Compleat President. In Portland, Ore., the Portland Chapter of the Izaak Walton League looked about town for a man to make its president, finally found one: Izaak Walton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Under the title-heading of "Compleat Conchophilist" [TIME, Sept. 16], I am happy to find that others enjoy and appreciate as much as I the joy, interest and advantages of "snail-watching," but regret the sense of levity with which you handled the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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