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...what Carr describes as "educated feet and scientific handling of the ball," and it is his left flank which is the mainstay of the forward line. On the other side Captain Johanson leads a fast running attack. Besides being second in scoring ability, he is the team's best trapper and header...
Died. Grey Owl, 50, self-educated Canadian Indian trapper who turned naturalist and conservationist (TIME, Jan. 3); of pneumonia; in Prince Albert, Sask. Returning a month ago from a tour of the U. S. and England, where he gave a command performance before King George and Queen Elizabeth, he told Ontario newshawks that "another month of this lecturing will kill...
...taking panda No. 1. Su Lin, where credit is said to be more than due-to Chinese Professional Hunters Jack and Quentin Young (Yan Di Lin). Businesslike Jack, who had hunted the panda before, arranged the party's affairs; and it was tall, slouchy Quentin, interpreter and trapper, who actually captured fat little Su Lin for her. Notwithstanding, the book amply testifies the romantic courage of Mrs. Harkness-a city-bred woman who ventured into a foreign wilderness with no preparation beyond the reading of adventure stories...
When he heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar...
...TRAPPER TRAPPED...