Word: mallard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a week or so away, that kind of news is hardly what hunters want to hear. Worse yet, the duck that has been hardest hit, say experts of the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, has been the hunter's favorite: the big. lumbering and noisy mallard, which normally fills more than half of the Midwestern hunter's bag. Mallard breeding is at an alltime low; this year alone, hatchings fell 25% in the U.S., 35% in Canada. Now, as migration to winter grounds in the Gulf states begins in earnest, the experts estimate that...
...insects. Aside from a Robert Trent Jonesdesigned golf course, featuring a famed 9th hole where the player must drive the ball across 100 ft. of water to a green surrounded by five sand traps, Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre hunting preserve, stocked with turkey, quail and mallard duck. Judge Harold Medina each winter rents a one-bedroom-and-parlor suite overlooking the Atlantic. When Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge visits the resort, he stays with his sister-in-law and her husband, the Scott Shepherds, at their $70,000 home...
...gift: Clark explained that he had never worn the ring. A freckled, pipe-smoking songwriter named Orville Lunsford told how Clark's subsidiary firms worked. His record All American Boy got a fast ride to the No. 2 position in record sales-but only, he said, after the Mallard Pressing Corp.. one of Clark's interests, got an order to print 50,000 copies. "Almost immediately." said Lunsford. "I heard my song played every other day on Clark's show...