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...warriors defeated and killed General Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait, but the President specifically stated that he had used worms and showed a coffee-can full of wrigglers to prove it. He said, however, that next time he would use flies. The President's prize...
...hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober leading man, thus proving yet again that cinema is sound at the core, even though occasionally amusing...
...baiter and baited, finds a real recreation in dealing with a tribe whose wiles are of a more subtle order. The landing of a brook trout gives infinitely deeper satisfaction than the discomfiture of a poor political fish or fisherman. Further, there can be little doubt that the a worm are far more palatable than the big fish in the governmental swim...
...EARLY WORM-Robert Benchley and Gluyas Williams-Holt ($2). The spice of Life...
...ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students...