Word: bergman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick Louis Maytag, 79, world's greatest washing-machine maker, father of Maytag Co.'s President Elmer Henry and onetime President Lewis Bergman; in Los Angeles. An Illinois-born farm boy, he first sold farm tools, lumber and threshing machines, lost $100,000 in railroading. $300,000 in motormaking and $1,000,000 in Maytag Co. before he began making his fortune...
...example, that the Deutsche Jugendkraft with a membership of over 100,000 throughout Baden was dissolved. Mr. Bingham implies that because the Nazis have promised not to discriminate against Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their good faith? Or are we to consider the gross violations of the Olympic Code contained in the cases of Dr. Prenn, the tennis player, Beelig, the boxer and Nathan, the long distance runner, to name but a few who have been denied...
...first time Gato sees Malibu he prepares to kill him, then recognizes his old crony and shares a drink with him. Both remain attached to Miss Parker. When his mate is killed, Malibu leaves their fawn with her to rear. The villain of Sequoia is a surly poacher named Bergman. When Bergman traps a herd of deer, Malibu shows them how to jump out of the corral. Bergman stalks Malibu and Gato stalks Bergman. Sequoia ends when Gato claws Bergman into a semicoma and Malibu butts him off a cliff...
Approval of worm-fishing is not Author Bergman's only angling heresy. He considers wet fly fishing "as a finished art . . . much harder to master than dry fly fishing. ' Quoting directly from his field notes, Author Bergman tells about nights spent fishing Brandy Brook in the Adirondacks, days in which he did no fishing at all but sat watching a small stretch of stream to find out how its trout acted. Three years later he caught a trout in this part of the brook for the first time. Profoundly observant. Author Bergman caught trout...
...chapter on dry fly fishing. Author Bergman tells how to make slack line casts, how to study a stream: "Sometimes the water may look flat and uninteresting but close examination will reveal many small holes scattered here and there usually in each of these holes will be found trout. . . . No matter how shallow the water may be, it is always wise to fish where there are rocks of any size. . . Always the short cast is preferable to a long...