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ZODIAC AND SWASTIKA: HOW ASTROLOGY GUIDED HITLER'S GERMANY by WILHELM WULFF 192 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...unwitting absurdities. For example: "This left me with a number of Jewish clients, who were being subjected to even worse persecution than we astrologers." Or, even worse, " 'You must meet Himmler,' Kersten told me. 'You'll like him. He is a nice man.' " So Wulff, who had been arrested in a roundup of astrologers after Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to England (Hess was believed to have consulted astrologers about the most favorable date for his departure), got invited to lunch at the castle of Heinrich Himmler, commander...
...light-tackle aficionado may hook ten fish for every one he catches. But the one is worth it. Last August, off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Veteran Angler Lee Wulff, 63, set a world record by landing a 597-lb. bluefin tuna on 50-lb.-test line. Wulff played that bulldog of the deep for 13½ hr. before finally coaxing it to gaff. "Now I know," he sighed afterward, "what a guy feels like when he has climbed a mountain for the first time...
...that seems a quixotic pastime, consider the fishermen who set out armed with nothing more substantial than fly rods basically designed for fresh-water trout. Surprisingly, they sometimes make a catch. Off Ecuador last year, Lee Wulff patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same...
...Beller, John A. Buehrens, Richard W. Burrill, Peter H. Calkins, Christopher C. Dahl, Jacob S. Egan, Sheldon Frank, Harry K. MacWilliams, Richard H. Meadow, Richard H. Schoolman, John F. Seegal, Alexander Shoumatoff, Frank M. Snowden III, Randall D. Weiss, David P. Wofsy, Erik O. Wright, and Kenneth R. Wulff...