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...More than 270,000 armed Wisconsin men-enough for 18 Army divisions-huddled near campfires in the cold; another army of over 320,000 from Michigan waited restlessly near by, cleaning guns, checking ammunition. Finally, half an hour before sunrise, the first shot cracked through the pines. The 1961 deer season was under...
...local affair called by a local union leader anxious to assert his authority. Like children out to embarrass their parents in public, local leaders went much further than Reuther expected, as they wrangled with G.M. plant negotiators over 11,000 issues ranging from the utterly frivolous (time off for deer hunting) to the undeniably serious (job transfer rights...
...worse") as she laid over in Tampa prior to "going to New York to talk with lawyers about the estate." Her subsequent stop: Ketchuni, Idaho, where Hemingway shot himself two months ago. "Perhaps I'll do some hunting," thought Mary Hemingway. "I'd like to get a deer this season...
...most enjoyable consignment of baloney in months. The mission that cannot be pulled off is the spiking of two enormous German guns before a lost British battalion can be evacuated from an Aegean island. The man who can pull it off is Gregory Peck. "Why me?" asks Peck, his deer's eyes regarding his gruff, lovable old commander (James Robertson Justice) with reproach. "Well," the G.L.O.C. answers reasonably, "you speak German like a German, Greek like a Greek, and before the war you were the greatest mountain climber in the world...
Blunt Warning. On a tour of the mansion, Patterson later pointed out a deer head on the wall, paused at a picture of the 1868 Alabama legislature, which had ratified the 14th Amendment guaranteeing citizens "due process" of law. Nearly one-third of the men in the picture were Negroes. "I keep it as a historical curiosity," said Patterson. He gestured toward a picture of Confederate General Joseph ("Fighting Joe") Wheeler.*"I'm related to Wheeler. My mother's mother's mother was a Wheeler...