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...young father he takes his son, then eight or nine, to a crossroads tavern after a morning foray against the smallmouth bass of Wisconsin. The kid stuffs his face and observes: "Gee, Dad, this is the life, isn't it? Fishing and eating in saloons." A quarter of a century later he takes another tyke fishing, this time on Martha's Vineyard. "Grandpa," the boy asks, "did you grow old or were you made old?" These volumes provide the answer. He grew old gracefully and, like every other superstar, made everyone who watched him feel young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sporting Life | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...Albany, Governor Tom Dewey announced that he was air-expressing several hundred smallmouth bass fingerlings to Emperor Boo Dai of Viet Nam, Indo-China. On his journey to the far Pacific last year, the governor explained, he found that the Emperor had never fished for bass, so Dewey had promised to send enough to stock some native streams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Horizons | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...fishing should be best at a time when fishing was not permitted-during April and May. Last week thousands of fishermen were inclined to agree with him: they were taking advantage of a stretch of balmy Tennessee Valley weather to reel in heavy hauls of crappie and large-and smallmouth bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best Time for Fishing | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Fisherman was not: he rarely appeared before 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They fished from a launch in Lake Huron, in the clear blue icy waters around Birch Island in Canada's famed Manitoulin district. First trip out the Old Fisherman took five smallmouth black bass, one medium-sized musky. His tackle: a light trout rod, a pearl spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Fisherman | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...president of Kalunite, Inc., had got the run-around from OPM for months on his plans to make aluminum from alunite (TIME, June 16). Last week, testifying at a Senate Defense Committee hearing in Seattle, he had a chance to crack back. He snapped at it like an angry smallmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Mr. Eichelberger Gets Mad | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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