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...Stout Trout. In Lewiston, Idaho, 15-year-old John Olson got a very dirty look from a steelhead trout while wading in the river, explained to the game warden that the only thing he could do was stone the 13-lb., 36-in. fish to death in self-defense...
...hand had done most of the work of lifting the Post's face. Five years ago, when the Post was in a slump, plump Editor Wesley Winans Stout stepped out. Before his chair had cooled, Curtis Publishing Co.'s President Walter D. Fuller set Ben Hibbs in it, and gave him plenty of elbow room. A tall, quiet-spoken Phi Beta Kappa Kansan, 45-year-old Ben Hibbs had been putting some spring in the Country Gentleman's step...
Alec had no histrionic forebears and no early encouragement. But "Somehow," he says, "I always knew I wanted to be an actor." Funds in the Guinness family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
...almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand in an impatient gesture-how could she explain a self-evident fact to these fortunate, blissfully ignorant Americans...
Next day the newspapers did their patriotic best to make it a pugilistic Dunkirk. The Tory Daily Mail stout-fella'd: ". . . a Briton has once again proved his ability to 'take it' in the face of hopeless odds. . . ." The Laborite Daily Herald gave it the headline of the week...