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...also got their lumps (in Gathings' words: "TV is a continuation of nothin' in the world but shootin' and killin' and stompin' on people in alleys"), but sex got by far the biggest play. Illinois' Republican Congressman Fred Busbey (who is both an Elk and a Moose) gave a resounding if not very relevant introduction to Chicago News Commentator Paul Harvey as "one of the greatest living Americans today" and one who has long been in the "forefront of the fight on Communism." Harvey attributed TV's woes to the fact that most...
Evidence. In Elk City, Okla., Clyde Brewer, on trial for possessing liquor in a dry state, was held in contempt of court when he admitted that during a recess he had swigged half a pint of Exhibit...
This is a good year for hunters. Quail, duck and pheasant are more plentiful than ever. In some states, seasons had to be lengthened to thin out the overflowing herds of elk and deer. Last week, from the bare-shouldered hills of Washington to the chilling marshes of South Carolina, at least 12 million licensed U.S. hunters were still blazing away...
...Near Martin City, Mont., Hunter Baker Hagstad dropped two other hunters with a single rifle shot. One died; the other was badly wounded. Another Montanan, out for elk, shot a white horse draped with a scarlet blanket and tied to a tree. Joseph A. Hoffman, 36, of Missoula, Mont., killed an elk, promptly keeled over, dead of a heart attack...
...hunter hit the jackpot 30 minutes after he got out of his car. In that time he killed a 600-lb. bear, a 700-lb. elk, a 225-lb. deer. Others were not so lucky. By the fifth day of the 17-day season, Colorado's casualty list read: six dead, four from gunfire, two from heart attacks. That was only the beginning; in most deer-hunting states the season has not yet opened. If 1950 follows the pattern of 1949, some 500 big-and small-game hunters throughout the U.S. will have been shot to death by Christmas...