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Died. Carl Sternberg, 50, famed two decades ago for his remarkable resemblance to President Theodore Roosevelt; in Manhattan; suddenly, after jumping out of a 13th story bedroom in the New Mills Hotel. A note found in his room said: "Am feeling like a boy going fishing."
"Study to be quiet" was Izaak Walton's grand old fishing axion, and if there was ever a disciple of this school, the President is such a one. In that study he has perfected himself, and his competence has stood him in good stead, as much in dodging the lures...
Which last two genres suggest his true ability. Mr. Butler is a gentle, observing, whimsical soul who has taken to literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the...
Pilot Van Orman, 33, lean, studious, is such a wise meteorologist that his fellow employes at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. consult him upon whether or not to go fishing. He won the Bennett Trophy last year, is perhaps the ablest of U. S. balloonists.
Strange Fish. William Beebe, one of those fortunate men who seem to be doing exactly what their spirits desire, returned to Manhattan last week from a four-month fishing and observing expedition on the coral reefs of Haiti. In the scientific-romantic vein which characterizes his writings, he excited newsgatherers...