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Sir: Your entertaining and enlightening footnote on the sporting interests of our Presidents [Nov. 9] could do with a little amplification in the field of halieutics. George Washington's Diary records his frequent dealings with the perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary...
Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally...
From Manila, for example, we heard from an original TIME reader, now a government official, who wrote: "Since its first issue to the present, I never missed a copy except during the dark period of our history of the Philippines when the Japanese occupied our country. During that period, my...
"You Push the Button." The U.S. soon led the photography field (one English critic, chagrined when his country lost in an international exhibition, attributed U.S. successes to the American climate). At first, U.S. daguerreotype studios were sedate affairs, always featuring, as one writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box...
¶Actor Zachary (Mildred Pierce) Scott returned from a Mexican fishing trip wearing a plain gold earring in his pierced left ear lobe. Said Mrs. Scott: "There has never been the slightest unpleasantness about it. Of course, it attracts attention, particularly from the ladies. Everybody seems to enjoy it ...