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...slate roof. With an automobile jack his comrades had pried one arm free, but to free the other would topple down a mass of rock, kill the trapped man. Dr. Davis lay down and inched his way alongside the sufferer and, like an automobile mechanic unjointing a brake rod, amputated the pinned...
...ROD VAN LEUWEN New York City...
...west of Fort Collins, Col. With his host and another friend he wandered along the Cache Poudre River. Publisher Bonfils saw a pool of rainbow trout. "Try 'em if you like," said his host, "but they won't rise to the fly." Publisher Bonfils got a light rod, waders, put two flies on his leader, cast. Pleased was Publisher Bonfils when a little trout struck at once, ran toward the deep end of the pool. Startled was he when his rod bent double as a bigger, a monster fish struck the other fly, knocking the first trout free...
...died 1926. In 1928 he, 90, married a 26-year-old Butte, Mont, girl who had been his nurse. In 1929 he died.*Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania with rod & reel landed a 157-lb. specimen off Block Island last month...
...club bore. He is a great one . . . for three dots. Notterdam and Kratch had been through thick & thin, up a deal and down hell together. They were now twin tycoons lording it in Manhattan. Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great publishing house of Post, Gellatly & Jeaffreson. Cronies but always cantankerous, Notterdam and Kratch came to grips, almost to blows, over the House's policy. When the dust settled Kratch had left sulphurously for Europe, Notterdam had determined to buy out his partner, never...