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...Sportsmen who last week examined the new $1 Federal Duck Stamp, which every U. S. duckhunter must henceforth paste on his hunting license, recognized a familiar touch. About the size of a special delivery stamp, it showed a male and female mallard coming to rest on some marshland. It was drawn by one of the nation's best cartoonists and its first anseriformiphile, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who last March became chief of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey (TIME, March 26). Postoffice officials expect it to become a collectors' item...
...sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live birds to nearby hunt clubs, induced sportsmen to shoot them down for him. He declared last week that Eggs, Inc. was not "busted." It simply wanted to reorganize...
...full meaning of the new Augusta National Golf Club, opened last winter (TIME, Jan. 23, 1933), is that of a monument to one of the finest sportsmen and sporting careers ever known. Men from all over the country contributed to the building of a '"perfect" course that should embody everything Bobby Jones thought best in the game, and that should have Bobby Jones for its president...
...that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) Dickens' reputation was made. The book was translated into French and German. Winkle. Weller, jingle...
Guessing that the pseudo-apostolic Reichsführer would relish an attack on a Hohenzollern, blatant Der Deutsche, organ of the Nazi Labor Front, flayed onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm for collecting fat fees from sportsmen who lease the shooting rights on his Silesian estates. Calling this a "scandal," Der Deutsche demanded that unemployed persons be settled on the estates as farmers, "thus creating thousands of jobs and millions in new values...