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