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Bean believed, and was obviously content in proving, that "it takes a sportsman to design equipment for sportsmen." For more than 50 years, the flinty, down-East salesman peddled wilderness wares of his own making to grizzled backwoodsmen as well as fugitives from Abercrombie & Fitch. Among those who bought his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salesmen: Merchant of the Maine Woods | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Loud Whistle. The semiannual catalogue, as fascinating for prose as for merchandise touted, contained more than 400 items ranging from Bean's Improved Sandwich Spreader to a collapsible bait bucket. Many of the goods Bean designed himself; most he personally tested on the trails. In a spare, hardsell style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salesmen: Merchant of the Maine Woods | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Using the pagers are thousands of doctors, construction bosses, executives, real estate salesmen and repair men. Undertakers in Chicago contact freelance embalmers by radio pager, and in Miami funeral directors are paged at graveside the same way. Off the Atlantic coast, fishing craft without ship-to-shore rigs are called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Pocket Paging | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Jim Shepley is a practicing sports-man-big-game hunting, fishing, sailing. He has captained his yawl, Andromeda, on many a blue-water race, including the Newport-to-Bermuda run last spring.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 3, 1967 | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Rock V Roll. When they are not patrolling, the Marines help the villagers and try to get to know them better. In Phuoc Trach, a fishing village on the populous coastal plain below Danang, CAC protection allowed Navy Seabees to build a bridge connecting the village with the main road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Building a Nation Beyond the Killing | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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