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Rule 3. He must be healthy and vigorous. He should be at ease with a fishing rod and shotgun; if possible, he should walk to work. Voters do not like to think of their President as a man subject to such drab ailments as the sniffles.
The fishing industry was making money galore. But the 125,000 U.S. fishermen had something else that was new-prestige. For the first time since Plymouth Rock, the fisherman was absolutely vital to the nation's food supply, as needed and respected as the rancher, the farmer.
His body had always been magnificent and versatile. In the Olympic Games of 1912, he won third place in the modern pentathlon-the five sports, horseback riding, cross-country running, swimming, fencing, shooting. He had loved polo, squash, tennis, skeet shoots, bird shooting, game fishing, fox hunting. Always he had...
On the glass-topped desk of Chester C. Davis, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, lay a letter from an old friend in Montana: "Better plan to come out for some good fishing and deer hunting. This might be the summer to do something."
> Nylon monafilaments, once strung on tennis racquets and stretched between hook & line as fishing leaders, are now used as surgical sutures.