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...When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours." For those still in the hospital, Anderson puts on a wild-game dinner every fall. Last year he fed 5,000 disabled veterans on 100 deer, 1,500 ducks and numerous quail, geese and elk, all shot by a small army of veterans under Anderson's command, on land lent specially for the annual hunt. Anderson also organized a group of 100 totally disabled men, known as the Rambling Wrecks, supplies them with tickets to sporting events...
Away from his biological studies and his house activities, Hoadley enjoys retiring in the summer to his New Hampshire home with his wife and family. There he fishes for freshwater trout, and hunts birds, deer, foxes, rabbits, and partridge...
Even hunting, though, he lets his good nature control the trigger. When he first got a good bead on a deer, he just "stood and watched her go." Because--whether it is amoebae, deer, trout, or Leverett men--Professor Hoadley enjoys living organisms...
...meeting chairman, pointed out that the Queen Mother's horse had been scratched before the race began, but Miss Horsfall was not one to give up in a hurry. "I saw," she replied with spirited irrelevance, "that young Prince Charles was having his first lessons in shooting deer." The league finally agreed to write Queen Elizabeth, whose stable includes 36 thoroughbreds, and ask that the royal family pronounce itself against the "cruelty" involved in the sport of kings and queens. Her point won, Miss Horsfall briskly traveled the 1,600 furlongs back to Leeds...
...Arizona Cattle Growers Association, in collecting evidence of vandalism by deer and elk hunters, heard from one rancher who found a cake of soap floating in his galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter, he deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit...