Word: elks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a bang. Some 100,000 huntsmen (the manpower of more than six full-strength divisions) made a mass assault on the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. The weather was a bit too warm, foliage cut down visibility, and there had been no early snows to drive deer and elk from the high areas. But the early-season shooting was fairly good nonetheless. Stalking through the valleys, over barren ridges, through clumps of quaking aspen and oak brush, across rocky peaks, the luckier hunters had plenty of chances at game...
...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...
Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
...automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host, and was on his way again...