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Virginia natives were chuckling last week over a story about Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph K. Knapp (American lithographic) and some 3,800 wild ducks on their expensive Back Bay and Currituck Sound shooting preserves. The story was that Sportsmen Corey & Knapp, just to be sure of something to shoot at when they went ducking, caused expert duck raisers to hatch and raise 3,800 wild fowl. So fond of their homes did these ducks become, so fat did they grow on tycoon-bought grain, that when Sportsmen Corey, Knapp & friends appeared to do some shooting, the ducks...
...wren-houses were working out, they whispered over the backs of their chairs like politicians. They all knew that the policies of their president, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, were to be challenged by a small group of discontented members who had charged him with too great a friendship for wealthy sportsmen, too little interest in birds (TIME...
...explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon* opposed a bill in Congress to form permanent bird refuges, favored instead the establishment of interchangeable refuges, which would some years be public shooting grounds. Most biting criticism came in regard to Dr. Pearson...
...will not challenge again. It's no use. We cannot win," he said. "I could not have had better . . . sportsmen to race against. You cannot blame them for doing their very best...
...Kennedy, R. N., who inherited an estate near Hoboken, N. J. in 1763, married into New York's Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families, was said to own "more houses in New York than any other man." From Ailsa Craig come curling stones, slithered over the ice by winter sportsmen...