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Dick Oehmler, a hard hitting 158-pounder and an excellent kicker, will start at tailback. Bill Volmer, a Salem boy, will be at fullback, while Jim Donaghy will start at wingback. The blocking back will be Joe Crehore, last year's Andover co-captain...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Soccer, '56 Football, Soccer Squads Open Seasons Today | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

Starting at tailback against Andover will be 158-pound Dick Oehmler. Oehmler, one of the 20 former high school captains on the squad, looks like the kind of runner that "weights 155 but hits like a 200-pounder...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

...started fishing in earnest. Says he: "I made five casts and I hooked five trout, none of which could have weighed less than eight pounds. There's no other place in the world you can do that. Of the five, I boated three. The biggest was a 25-pounder and the smallest was twelve. And I got them all in just over an hour. I sat there looking at those beautiful big trout and thinking of all the years I've spent boasting about an eight-pounder I once caught in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...rank amateur, Donald V. Applegate of Cochabamba, caught a 17-pounder; the current record is held by Ricardo Roberts, manager of the newspaper La Razón, who boated a 32-pound rainbow.* Packing up to transfer to a new post in the Pentagon last week, Moores vowed: "I'll be back next year. If there's not a 40-pounder there now, there'll sure be by then, and that's the boy I'm after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...World's rainbow record: a 37-pounder caught at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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