Word: taxidermist
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When luck has been good, the boat churns back to dock about 5 p.m., flying a white flag from an outrigger, denoting that a sailfish has been landed. The first shore stop is usually Pflueger's taxidermist, whose charge for mounting sailfish is up from $10 to $12 a foot. The small-fry albacore, kingfish, bonito, dolphin and snappers (averaging from 6 to 12 Ibs.) are mostly extra gravy for the skipper-to sell, filleted...
Alcoholic Content. In Beloit, Wis., Fisherman Louis Mclntyre took a 21¾-lb. muskellunge to a taxidermist, who looked inside, found a full 12-oz. bottle of beer...
...Angeles veterinarian and a taxidermist drove out one day last week to the San Fernando Valley ranch of the late Tom Mix, walked into a shed where the most famous horse since Pegasus stood in the mildness of his last few moments alive. The horse was Tony, who was a scrawny yearling following a vegetable wagon around a small town in Arizona when Tom Mix gave $12.50 for him. In the years that followed, Tony became the valiant central symbol of a cinematic age of innocence, the hero of millions of small boys and some of the best juveniles ever...
...grown so painfully stiff that someone had to be kept in his stall to help him to his feet. Since Tom Mix's death two years ago, there had been a vacant look in Tony's eye. He was scarcely aware of the veterinarian and taxidermist when they came in. A few seconds later he was no longer aware of anything. The veterinarian had injected five ounces of chloral hydrate into Tony's heart. At once the taxidermist set about flaying the cadaver so that Tony (stuffed) may tour the country for the benefit of Boy Scouts...
Artist Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...