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...dozen such melodramatic, real-life hunting episodes, University of New Mexico Anthropology Professor Frank (Hunting American Lions) Hibben has put together a bear book as fresh and arresting as the hour-old print of a grizzly's paw. Some of the experiences are Professor-Hunter Hibben's own: he has tracked the varmints through the Southwest and in Alaska. Others he gleaned secondhand from such fast-trailing U.S. hunters as Ben Lilly (TIME, May 15) and Alaska's Allen Hasselborg, who left the States in 1900 and settled for good on desolate Admiralty Island to hunt...
...brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...
Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...
Later in the week Paw struggled through a maze of financial paper work. Oil company agents had persuaded him to engage a trust company to handle his royalties, which might reach $800 a week. "The wife and the boys," said Paw, "can do what they want with the money. They stuck with me when we had nothing to keep us alive but the milk from our five cows. I'm 62 now so I don't need it. They can buy anything they want...
...theatrical as he is efficient, Fuchs spits on his gold-colored, 16-lb. shot and thoughtfully polishes it with a massive paw before he gets poised for his throw. Then, with a negative, jowl-flapping shudder of his head, he crouches slightly on his powerful legs ("they're 50% of my success") and uncoils his frame from his toes to his fingertips. His heave last week was 57 ft. 9± in., 8± in. short of his own latest world record, set in April...