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...TIME'S Managing Editor John Stuart Martin: the North American tuna record ; by bringing to gaff an 821-pounder off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. U. S. sportsmen penetrated these old market fishing grounds three years ago, attracted by reports that the giant, powerful "horse mackerel" grew big and were more plentiful there than anywhere else. Previous Liverpool and North American record was a 788-pounder caught last August by Dr. John R. ("Goat Gland") Brinkley of Del Rio, Texas. Last month Mrs. Earl Potter of Brookville, L. I. won the women's world record there with a 757-pounder...
...Bureau, tottering along on meagre appropriations, had not been able to make much progress in the direction of Conservation when, in 1934, President Roosevelt finally gave ear to the agonized howls of 7½ million sportsmen. He appointed a Committee on Wildlife Restoration. The Committee promptly recommended that $25,000,000 be earmarked for the restoration of lands suitable for wild life preserves. It was not forthcoming, but famed Cartoonist-Conservationist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling passed the hat around to various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch...
...Texas fishermen as a crucial case last March was the application of Humble Oil & Refining Co. for permission from the War Department to drill a well in 18 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico about a mile off the mainland of Jefferson County. In the Texas Legislature sportsmen and conservationists joined with fishing interests to fight for State action against the drilling, pass laws to keep Texas oil fields out of the water. This was the first time any oil company had proposed to drill in the Gulf proper and tarpon fishermen envisioned miles of future wells ruining...
Political observers reacted as sportsmen would if Yale's football coach, having reduced Harvard to the status of an early-season setup, should publicly advise the Crimson how to come back. Depending on how they assayed his advice, readers guessed: that Pressagent Michelson was having some sly fun with his old enemies, that the wrinkled old battler genuinely longed to match his wits once more with a worthy opponent, or that "Charley the Mike," with Michiavellian cunning, was deliberately attempting to steer the tottering Elephant over a precipice...
...north by the Arctic Ocean. It is a tilted rugged land sloping unevenly eastward from the Rockies and northward from British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change to the White Pass & Yukon Railway which snakes across a lake region between mountains to Whitehorse and thence to Dawson...