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...Give me a chance to go hunting," grinned President Eisenhower, "and I'm not going to fool around." The President, seizing his first opportunity in three years, flew down to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Thomasville, Ga. plantation last week for a brief quail-shooting holiday. Five minutes after he arrived, on the afternoon of Lincoln's birthday, Ike was togged out in a natty corduroy cap, green windbreaker, whipcord jodhpurs and (as a protection against the locally prevalent rattlesnakes) sturdy natural-leather boots. Under his right arm, the President carried two shotguns, which he had carefully...
...aboard a shiny black, red-wheeled "Thomasville wagon,"* drawn by two white mules. Secret Service Man James Rowley sat on the tail gate and the others-Secret Service agents, beaters, Humphrey and guests -mounted horses. At dusk, after three hours of shooting in the marshlands, Ike returned with nine quail-three short of a day's legal limit...
Next morning the President was up early and off again in the balmy Georgia weather for more hunting. At noon he helped to broil quail over a charcoal grill. When the day's hunting was over, he had bagged his limit-an even dozen quail. On Sunday, after 36 hours out of doors, Ike emplaned for Washington...
Distant Pastures. Carnation's devotion to research has already led it far from its original pasture. As one of the West's biggest makers of animal feeds, its Albers Milling Co. Division sells a line of feeds for hogs, turkeys, chickens, mink and quail. It spent $1,000,000 to develop a dog food, Friskies, has rapidly branched out into cereals for humans, and soon may be making fertilizers and insecticides...
Humphrey always regarded "that thrilling thing up in Canada" as his last big accomplishment. Once the Labrador project was rolling, he planned to retire. "I was going to shoot some quail and raise some horses," he says. Then Ike asked him to take Treasury. Humphrey went off to Thomasville for a day to think it over. Convinced that "the spirit of this election is the greatest thing that has happened." he agreed to take...