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...September (TIME, Sept. 28). Stanford's five-week Fish Course will be part of the physical education program, promises "results but not fish. Students will be taught fly and bait casting. They will learn to tie flies and repair rods. But fish, no. We would not even guarantee Izaak Walton fish, could he be here to take the course...
Elected. Dr. Preston A. Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago; to be president of the Izaak Walton League of America, of which he was a founder and director; succeeding Dr. George Edgar Vincent, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Chicago. Honorary president, reelected: Herbert Clark Hoover...
...Last week appeared President Hoover's first book since entering the White House. Its title: A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes. Shrewdly the Huntington Press of Manhattan had obtained the publishing rights to two of the President's old addresses-one to the Izaak Walton League of America, the other to the citizens of Virginia at Madison courthouse (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929)- and brought them out in a limited edition (990 copies) with a foreword by Hoover Administrative Assistant James French Strother. Price: $7. Theme of each speech: less time between bites...
...White House last week went a Virginia delegation of Izaak Walton Leaguers, led by Congressman Robert Walton Moore. To the President they handed an expensive rod and reel, said it was "a token of esteem and gratitude for the impetus given outdoor sports, particularly fishing, which the President by hi? example has brought to the attention of the whole country...
Currently published is a book* which contains, besides a sketchy but competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...