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Country Life is a horsy magazine comprising all that is left of Polo, The Sportsman, Horse & Horseman. Its editor & publisher is an ardent turf lover named Peter Vischer. In this month's Country Life, Editor Vischer had a few paragraphs to say about "the custom becoming more and more prevalent among track operators of paying the 'expenses' of newspapermen doing the work their papers assign them to do, of putting them up cost-free at their clubhouses or elsewhere, even of putting them on the payroll...
Last week a car speeding from Cicero crashed into a telephone pole, its windows shattered by bullets, a bloody corpse at its wheel. The man was Edward J. O'Hare, president of the National Jockey Club, president of Sportsman's Park track (once owned by Capone). In Cicero they had not forgotten...
During his first four years in Washington Count Jerszy Potocki has carried on with skill and ensuing popularity the routine duties of Polish ambassador. Rarely did his name appear in print; and then usually at official receptions. He lived the life of an ambassador in the spirit of the sportsman. His days belonged to the hounds, to tennis, to dancing. Wherever he mixed, his charm prepared the way for closer American friendship with Poland...
...after 4 p.m.; no more than three shells in a gun; no live decoys; no baiting in duck-shooting areas. And many an ardent wildfowler gained an audience by quoting passages from the latest duck-hunter's Bible, A Book on Duck Shooting* by famed Sportsman Van Campen Heilner...
...Sportsman Heilner's opus may prove as valuable a handbook for duck hunters as his Salt Water Fishing has been for big-game anglers. Packed between its covers-in addition to his memoirs and 150 pages of photographs-are: a guide for identification of 58 species of ducks and geese; a treatise on sun spots and their influence on the abundance of waterfowl; maps of the North American fly ways; statistics on the speed of birds; a chapter on U. S. duck clubs, ranging from the commercial clubs (no more private than a night club) to the exclusive groups...