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...daytime. He took up fishing after dinner and one evening stayed out until nearly midnight. Another day he caused his gear to be assembled and boarded a special train for Lewis, Wis., some 90 miles away, where lives Charles E. Lewis, Minneapolis broker. The Lewis estate on Seven Pines Creek, like the Pierce estate on the Brule, has its own trout hatcheries in spring-fed ponds. The Presidential catch was 137 (in two sessions). While the President fished, Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge took a swim in the Lewis swimming pool. Mrs. Coolidge said it was the most...
Federal authorities last week boarded and seized the gambling ship Johanna Smith, anchored seven miles off Long Beach, Calif. (TIME, Aug. 27.) A statute of 1793, providing forfeiture of a ship engaged in any trade other than that for which licensed, was invoked. The Johanna Smith, licensed for coastal trade, had 13 gaming tables aboard, 38 slot machines, with fast launches to ferry visitors to and from shore...
...Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation's name: Soyus Sotsialisticheskekh Sovietskikh Respublik ("Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"). Tourists will pore over well-thought-out-schedules for "Seeing Moscow in Eight Days" or Leningrad in seven...
This Dr. Edwin H. Coward, superintendent of the Atlantic County Hospital, knew last week when he fondly took Bob White, seven months old, to the Atlantic City airport. He put Bob White in a plane. It rose, swooped up and down. Bob White cowered. The plane came to earth. Bob White clambered out of the cockpit. Men chirruped at him; they whistled; they called. And for the first time in his life Bob White heard sounds. Delighted he yelped answers. No congenital deafness was his. More delighted was Dr. Coward. He cherishes Bob White, finely bred grandson of President Coolidge...
...Orleans last week returned Dr. Franz Blom from seven months in Central America and Mexican jungles. His party had been hunting Mayan vestiges. Their best find was cloth 1,500 years old. Interesting was evidence of a game quite like squash played by the aborigines...