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...trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles from the Lodge. Mrs. Coolidge and the secret-service men watched and applauded. The President caught ten. Another new sport was clay-pigeon shooting. The President was presented with some handsome shotguns and a set of traps for whirring out the dark four-inch discs with yellow circles on their backs. The secret-service men showed him how to stand at the butt, get set, cry "pull!" and blow the sailing "pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Summer Sports | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, is the biological chef who concocted the food pill. It is about the size of a pigeon's egg, is composed principally of nitrogen, phosphorus, iron salts. The definite recipe is still a secret; each plant requires different proportions of ingredients and many formulas remain still to be worked out. Chef Gericke plans to tell U. S. agricultural colleges and departments about the food pill when he returns from lecturing in England, France, Germany, Italy on his experiments. Plant lovers may soon be able to buy the pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Pills | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Divorced. fMr. McAndrew, able, no stool pigeon, has sued Mayor Thompson for libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew's Successor | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Chicago board of education voted unanimously, last week, to make placid, bushy-haired William J. Bogan superintendent of public schools. He had been acting superintendent since last August when William McAndrew, famed "stool pigeon of King George," was ousted by Mayor William Hale Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew's Successor | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Once deep in the woods, José Marinat, usually a dead shot, fired at a pigeon and missed, at another and missed, at another and missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Poor Jose | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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