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From Lake Winnibigoshish to Dirty Nose Lake, Minnesota's fishing resorts were jammed. A rowboat couldn't be had without ah advance reservation; most of them were signed up for the rest of the season. Izaak Waltons from towns like Bemidji, Sleepy Eye and Sauk Center got out their flies and corks, all hell bent to catch one of the 1 ,000 prize fish planted by Minneapolis Radio Station KSTP...
Somehow philosophers and fishing seem to go together. There were Izaak Walton and Thoreau, for instance, who liked to be contemplative while seated in a boat, dangling a line overside. Was Mr. Russell an angler of any sort...
...staggered into South Station laden down with the necessities of his annual Spring fishing trip. Disposed clumsily and loosely about his person were two fishing rods, a tackle box, a landing net, a small overnight bag, and a fishskin-bound volume of Izaak Walton. Before running the gamut of redcaps waiting eagerly to receive him, Vag stopped to reflect. Six parcels meant he would have to pay the porter sixty cents -- a rather stiff assessment coming so soon after his last weekend in New York...
...Izaak Walton's definitive work on 17th-Century fishing, The Compleat Angler, is now a literary curiosity rather than a manual. A treatise published this week borrowed from its title but not its style. The Compleat Goggler* introduced a new sport, told the best ways of indulging...
...MARS exhibition was actually one of the most effective presentations of modern architecture and planning ever made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them...