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Because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked, the giant broadbill swordfish, one of the seas' sportiest inhabitants, is the most difficult fish to take on rod & reel. Although more than 5,000,000 pounds of swordfish are harpooned by commercial fishermen off the Atlantic Coast every year, no more than a baker's dozen are caught by Atlantic anglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Louisburg | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...hobgoblin, Chip resigned. Presently, through Jim Farley's good offices, Chip bobbed up again as secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Today he and his beauteous second wife, "Evie" Walker, who has become a Washington chitchat writer (and last month, a mother), are the New Deal's sportiest couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Organization | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

From Nantucket around Cape Cod, across Massachusetts Bay to Norman's Woe ("It was the schooner Hesperus") and Gloucester, behind Cape Ann, through Casco Bay and up the jagged coast of Maine toward Eastport, Franklin Roosevelt last week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Down East | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...chance for a new game was afforded by the university when it supplied the Common room with four shiny brass ash trays, stamped H. U. Immediately the sportiest of the young athletes invented a fast game of table shuffle board. Played by teams of two, in which two men of opposing sides stand at each end off a long table, the objective is to have your two ash trays nearest the other end of the table. If one contestant can get both nearer than his opponent does, his side scores two points, if only one is ahead a single marker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Ash Trays Whirl as Smith Halls Eschew Organized Sports--Shuffle Board Men Begin Common Room Workout | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

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