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...just right. Oldtimer Art Wood, a guide from Sun Valley, grinned as he stalked through some willows to his pet spot. After a few expert casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped there all night, so that they could start fishing...
...Gorcey, side-of-the-mouth "Dead End Kid" of stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...
...females, too, were susceptible. They followed a red dummy as if it were a male. When a female was in the nest, Professor Tinbergen gently poked her abdomen with the tip of a glass rod. She laid her eggs willingly...
...Technicolor pajamas. The studio seems to have intended making just another Yvonne de Carlo picture. But Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree that saves plenty of money-and other redwood trees -by taking the same beautiful...
This fellow Unus, new to the Circus this year, possesses a remarkable right forefinger which he combines with a remarkable sense of balance to perpetrate some strange and wondrous feats. To be precise, he places his right forefinger on a globe-shaped object which is attached by a rod to a table that stands about three feet above the ground. On his right forefinger Unus then proceeds to stand. This is the basic formation, but it has a number of variations, the final and most terrifyingly delightful one taking place at a considerably greater distance from the ground, and involving...