Word: widgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe team also did combat Saturday winning the Widgeon regatta at Stonehill College in New Bedford. Marie Roehm, who was the low point skipper at the NCAA Women's National Championship in June, and Sarah Herrick commanded the squad's boat, taking three out of four races against five other schools...
...Seagull, the subject of the cover story that Foote wrote this week. Bach was in Bridgeport, Conn., making repairs on his plane when Foote called to discuss the possibility of a small story about Jonathan's success and its new deluxe edition. "He said he had a Grumman Widgeon and seemed delighted that I knew it was an amphibian," says Foote. As head of TIME'S Books section, Foote had chosen not to have Seagull reviewed when it first appeared. That small story, says Foote "was going to begin, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull is at my throat again...
Correspondent James Willwerth got a firsthand taste of that lifestyle while accompanying Bach in the Widgeon on a barnstorming-style promotional tour from Akron to Los Angeles. Between daytime autographing sessions at bookstores and nighttime layovers at small county airports, Willwerth managed to get in a series of airborne interviews. "At times he had so much to say," recalls Willwerth, "that it was hard to keep him on one subject. We were constantly swapping anecdotes and laughing, and then suddenly I would have to reach for my notebook to keep the conversation from going to waste...
...fluty call of a curlew heralds the first light of dawn. A faraway widgeon whistles to its companions. A rid off in the dark shallows, a flock of shelduck guffaw at one another like wee-hour carousers wending their way home. MacKenzie Thorpe is in his natural habitat. He is guiding three "guns" across the desolate marshlands of Lincolnshire on England's east coast. Bowlegged and bearded, he creeps through the high grass like some hungry predator, his burly hulk seemingly impervious to the chill wind knifing off the North Sea. Climbing a creek bank, one of the hunters...
...total of only $360 and had "four good guns" confiscated−a small penalty, he figures, compared with the yearly bag records he keeps in a blue notebook. In 1942, his best year, he took 48 pheasant, 72 partridge, 68 hare, 1 woodcock, 106 geese, 146 mallard, 231 widgeon, 193 shelduck, 2 shoveler, 1 tufted duck, 61 plover, 18 pigeon, 79 redshank, 50 knot, 40 curlew, 1 reeve, 1 gadwall, 1 pintail, 1 black-tailed godwit, 2 whimbrel and 6 rabbit. In the early 1960s, the invasion of the marshes by wildfowling clubs convinced Thorpe that the bountiful days were...