Word: outdoorsman
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...hikers in the Sierra Nevada used to encounter a husky, grim-faced man who haunted the mountains on an endless search, traveling sometimes afoot, sometimes by motorcycle, stopping on a ridge now and then to scan the silent expanses of forest and rock with his binoculars. Many a California outdoorsman came to know him by his nickname, "the Phantom Rider." Fewer knew his real name, Clinton Hester, and his mission: he was searching...
...third of four children. His mother was a schoolteacher and a beauty in her day ("Men still whistle at her," he says fondly, "and so help me, doctors don't believe that she's 80"); his father was an insurance executive and an enthusiastic outdoorsman. The family moved to a big ten-room house in Fordyce, 37 miles away, when John was four...
Hagerty has always parceled out enough substantive news to make daily, work-done headlines (TIME, Jan. 27). This time Hagerty barely went through the motions. On past vacations, Outdoorsman Eisenhower has permitted only really foul weather to keep him indoors, and even then has chafed at the weather. This time he hardly seemed to care: each morning he asked Hagerty for the weather forecasts, grinned and mock-shivered at the answer (Thomasville temperatures were in the 20s and 30s) returned contentedly to the firqside. Not until his eighth day in Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting...
...chubber" is almost a Dartmouth stereotype. No one seems to know the origin of the word "chubber". Evidently it originated in the '30s, but no one is yet sure whether it was intended as a derogatory, cynical, or laudatory term. One thing is certain: it refers to the Dartmouth outdoorsman. And that being the case chubber refers to almost 800 Dartmouth men, members of a vast organization known as the Dartmouth Outing club...
...Polish immigrant. His father, born Stephen Marciszewski, fled Poland as a 15-year-old refugee from czarist military conscription. He Americanized the family name, learned the tailoring trade, and eventually settled in Rumford. In spite of his sedentary occupation, father Muskie was a confirmed outdoorsman at heart, and Ed became an enthusiastic fisherman, a good skier and a competent trackman in school...