Word: deering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousands of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys and antelope roam what is probably the nation's biggest wildlife preserve...
...Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...
...earnings to date are $23,636, which gives him a slight lead over South Africa's Bobby Locke ($22,927) and fellow-Texan Ben Hogan ($22,310). For a brief vacation (he competes eleven months out of twelve), the veteran pro headed home to Houston to shoot deer and ducks...
Survival of the Fittest. Near Brunswick, Ga., Alfred Alsop spied a white-tailed deer, shot at it, pushed through the underbrush, picked up what he'd hit: one white tail. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., Dale Kirk and Ralph Tuepker went duckhunting, found a likely spot, built a blind, settled down to await the birds, presently discovered that Kirk had forgotten to bring his ammunition, Tuepker had forgotten...
Captain McMillen didn't make it. The big plane, last seen in flight by a deer hunter who reported that its undersides were aflame and that it was dropping unidentifiable objects, managed to skim over the precipitous wall of a canyon. But then, just 1,500 yards short of the airstrip, it crashed, churned 300 feet up a sage-covered slope, exploded and disintegrated. Nobody survived; nobody could have. Among those who died: Jack Guenther, managing editor of Look; Pro Footballer Jeff Burkett, Chicago Cardinals' halfback; Gerard B. Lambert Jr., scion of a famed drug dynasty (see MILESTONES...