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Pat Patterson at 69 still goes to his office each morning at 9:30. At noon he usually wanders over to the Adventurers' Club (his qualifications for membership: 36 summers spent fishing in Canadian woods) to idle away the afternoons swapping yarns with a drink at his elbow. Mild...
There was little left of what had been a tidy fishing village. All around the fjord's beachhead, where quays, warehouses, railroad station, freight sidings used to be, now lay a charred, twisted, upheaved destruction left by repeated showers of high explosive and incendiary bombs. As the German advance...
When Anse Bushman rents ground to a shiftless squatter, Boliver Tussie, he offers an inhuman contract forbidding whiskeymaking, fishing, frolics and immoral conduct, on pain of eviction and confiscation of crops. Boliver has to take it or leave the land; he takes it. Living up to it is another matter...
>A rabbity couple meet at a dance, flee that night to the woods to become trappers. Unmarried, dogged by hard luck in the shape of game wardens, Federal agents, swindlers, nature, they try fishing, working for a Yankee fruit grower, moonshining, end their hard luck odyssey right where they started...
In 1935 he picked a candidate for mayor, thought the election was in the bag, and went salmon-fishing off Anacostia Island. When he got back, he found his candidate had been scared out of the race by the late Samuel Davis Wilson, a loud. belchy, vigorous, utility-baiting, renegade...