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...Nash Buckingham, Derrydale's headline author, is unknown to most plain readers, will probably remain so. But to sportsmen, who buy his sporting tales on sight, this middleaged, powerfully built Tennesseean is famed as the world's greatest long-range duck shot...
...knew sportsmen like a book. His first publication was a book of sketches, priced at $7.50, which he peddled himself. Booksellers took one look-an unknown publisher, an unknown author, an unheard-of price!-and wrote him off as crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was not crazy at all. For men who paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold...
...Charles Phair, heir to a Maine starch fortune, wrote Derrydale's most expensive book, Atlantic Salmon Fishing (hand-illustrated, $250). His only literary work, it was mostly rewritten by Publisher Connett. To sportsmen, Charles Phair is a potent name. At 63, he has killed over 5,000 salmon...
When on any issue Alf Landon joins Al Smith. William Green joins John Lewis, Georgia Baptists and Tennessee Episcopalians join Manhattan rabbis, cafeteria workers join Chambers of Commerce, sportsmen join clubwomen. President Conant of Harvard joins Presidents Dykstra of Wisconsin and Wilbur of Stanford, something momentous has happened in U. S. public life. Last week such a thing had happened. All these and other signs indicated that the U. S. people were unitedly aroused...
...sign posted near Fairdale, Ore., cautioning sportsmen: "WARNING To HUNTERS - DONT Shoot until U see IT MOVE - it might be a W. P. A. worker." Coincidence In Detroit, year ago, Street Sweeper Joseph Figlock was furbishing up an alley when a baby plopped down from a fourth-story window, struck him on the head and shoulders, injured Joseph Figlock and itself but was not killed. Last fortnight, as Joseph Figlock was sweeping out another alley, two-year-old David Thomas fell from a fourth-story window, landed on ubiquitous Mr. Figlock with the same results...