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...years, so Japanese courtiers said, the officially divine Emperor, the Son of Heaven, went out last week "alone."' That is to say, Emperor Hirohito, climbed into a small motorboat, sternly commanded his entourage not to follow, and chugged off for the afternoon. At the helm was a common fisherman who did not count and two other common fishermen crouched beside him in the stern. Upon the prow sat the Divine One, eagerly peering out upon the waters through his spectacles for interesting specimens of seaweed. When the motorboat returned His Majesty had almost a bucketful of likely seaweed and several...
...Congress set aside more wilderness areas, furnish one game warden for each national forest. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, the Committee's chairman, is himself a keen gunner and fisherman. With his two sons and four setters he shoots the fat quail of Virginia and South Carolina when he can get away from Washington. With Lord William Percy of England and Dr. Frank Michler Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped...
...roving longshoreman, gold miner and fisherman in British Columbia and Alaska, Governor Olson had studied law by correspondence, returned to Minneapolis in 1915 to be admitted to the bar, to marry and to become county attorney. In 1927 his drive against city graft won him fame. A forceful speaker. Governor Olson today plays golf in the 80s, drives a Chrysler. With small personal means, he is said to be still trying to raise the last payment on his campaign expenses...
President Hoover, fisherman-author of A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes, acknowledged the importance of the occasion by sending a telegram: THE PROTECTION AND PROPAGATION OF THE USEFUL WILD LIFE OF THE COUNTRY IS OF MUCH GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN IS GENERALLY REALIZED. . . . THE BIOLOGICAL FACTS SHOULD BE FIRST...
...week the Bemidji, Minn., Fish Hatchery telephoned long distance to its officials to tell them that Old Silverspot, matriarch of wall-eye pike, was safe at the hatchery. She had been missing for two years. Hatchery men had thought she was dead of old age or had been a fisherman's prize 25-lb. catch. Fish officials hurried to Bemidji, found her swimming in a tub. They took her picture as Minnesota's mother of millions...