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...Give me a chance to go hunting," grinned President Eisenhower, "and I'm not going to fool around." The President, seizing his first opportunity in three years, flew down to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Thomasville, Ga. plantation last week for a brief quail-shooting holiday. Five minutes after he arrived, on the afternoon of Lincoln's birthday, Ike was togged out in a natty corduroy cap, green windbreaker, whipcord jodhpurs and (as a protection against the locally prevalent rattlesnakes) sturdy natural-leather boots. Under his right arm, the President carried two shotguns, which he had carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hunter | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself on an average of three bites a week, blithely offered to let any old mad dog bite her and to "put up $5,000 that I don't get rabies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

From Lexington, Ky., came disappointing news for the admirers of Tom Fool, 1953's Horse of the Year. Retired to stud last fall, he had so far failed to show any interest in mares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Native Dancer's Sire | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...believe it is impossible to fool a cancer victim for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Whole Truth . . . | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...business, would not let him see the scrapbook or the encyclopedia, but he satisfied himself that Farmer Ohman really had both of them. Then he gumshoed around the neighborhood and found that Ohman, though uneducated in a formal sense, was a smart man who often expressed an urge to fool the scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Farmer's Fun | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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