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Last week four of the six prizewinners lined up inside a Seattle police court. Three of them-Anthony Zuanich Jr., Frank Dupee, M. E. Smith-were charged with grand larceny. The fourth, a langorous blonde named June Smaaladen, was held as a material witness. It was charged that their fishing...
Power and the Land (RKO Radio). Dutch-born Joris Ivens (pronounced eevuns) is a sturdy pioneer in the neglected art of documentary films. Since 1928 he has been lugging his camera far & wide, cranking away on scenes of commercial fishing in Holland (The Breakers), mining in Belgium (Borinage), fighting in...
Dr. Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a...
"You know Dr. Johnson's definition of the sport of fishing--a stick with a fish at one end and a fool at the other. Well, I'm not even optimistic about the fish."
Somehow philosophers and fishing seem to go together. There were Izaak Walton and Thoreau, for instance, who liked to be contemplative while seated in a boat, dangling a line overside. Was Mr. Russell an angler of any sort?