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Died. Ray Smith, 54, Dallas oilman and devoted sportsman, a railroad fireman's son who built a $75 million fortune by parlaying a two-pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation-and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands...
...British sports magazine picked him as its "Sportsman of the Year" for 1966. His face has been on the covers of publications in Sweden, Germany and Finland and he was the subject of a TV documentary in France. But in the U.S., Tommie Smith, 22, a home-grown lad from Acworth, Texas, is virtually unknown. He was not even among the ten candidates for the A.A.U.'s 1966 Sullivan Award to the country's top amateur athlete.* And the oversight seems doubly strange because Smith is currently the best sprinter in the world, as well...
...business. Its general book division, which has published Robert Louis Stevenson, William James and Robert Frost, has declined to 7%. For the rest, Holt has not only a growing business in educational movies and other teaching aids, but a group of four magazines, including that staunch sportsman's standby Field & Stream. Overall earnings last year rose 28%, to $6.6 million on sales of $70 million-enough to make it CBS's third biggest moneymaking division, after TV and Columbia Records...
Bean believed, and was obviously content in proving, that "it takes a sportsman to design equipment for sportsmen." For more than 50 years, the flinty, down-East salesman peddled wilderness wares of his own making to grizzled backwoodsmen as well as fugitives from Abercrombie & Fitch. Among those who bought his snowshoes, fishing tackle and what have you were Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Doris Day and Amy Vanderbilt. To meet the demand, Bean employed 120 workers, also maintained a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year ("When hunters need something, they want it right away") retail outlet...
...died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that could have been far bigger had he ever branched beyond tiny (pop. 4,000) Freeport, Me. But Bean liked his sportsman's supply business the way it was. "I get three good meals a day," he once said, "and I can't eat four...