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That was a good story on cougar (TIME, Feb. 21), but I can't help wondering where your writers would turn to substantiate the statement that the big cats "sometimes [grow] to nine or ten feet from gorging on deer," or on anything else. . . . There may be something in some local deer that makes cougar bigger in some areas of the country. I don't know. I do know that the biggest "lion" yet killed by a family of brothers who hunt them professionally in three southwestern states and northern Mexico was several inches under eight feet long...
...become a candidate for national committeeman. Oregon elects its national party committeemen by popular vote. Cake stumped every county in the State, won by a vote almost as large as that of his three opponents combined. Father of two, he likes to read history and biography, hunt deer and bear in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. National Willkie headquarters will be set up promptly in New York City, announced Manager Cake, with branch organizations in all 48 States...
...skill, of their sport. A cougar hunter must be as rugged as the country he hunts -the mountain wildernesses of the western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound, he often follows a trail for days before he makes the kill...
...half a day until the hunter catches up. The West has developed its own breed of hounds-big, rangy, fast "black and tans." Hunters start training with a sackful of house cats for practice treeing. Only after two seasons of running with veterans do most dogs learn to disregard deer trails and stay on the cougar scent...
Because a cougar kills 40 deer a year, five western states pay bounties. Washington alone pays nearly 100 each year. Last week the greatest hunter of them all was oiling his gun. White-bearded John...