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St. Louis' encephalitis epidemic will indeed make that city famed in medical history. The epidemic, which began to spread in late July, has stricken more than 900 people, has killed 173, is the worst of its kind in the U. S. to date. Fourteen died last week, but U...
William Harnden Foster, editor of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing, claims credit for inventing skeet, in 1925. But as early as 1910 the late C. E. Davies and other Ballard Vale, Mass, gunners, Editor Foster among them, had hit on its basic idea. Ordinary trapshooting, with the gunner firing...
In 1929 that astute big game fisherman, Novelist Zane Grey, traveled from the Pacific coast, where taking big tuna had been studied and solved, to East Jordon Bay, Nova Scotia. There he tied into and landed a 758-lb. "horse mackerel" that set a world's record and started...
Coast guards at Shoreham, England, surveying a stormy sea, saw a white speck fluttering in the dusk. Three miles out they found weary-armed James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary for Dominions, tugging at an oar in a stalled motorboat with three fishing companions.
NO SECOND SPRING-Janet Beith- Stokes ($2.50). Next to the Nobel Prize ($39,942) the Stokes $20,000 award, open to novelists of all nations, was the plumpest plum on the literary tree this year. When Publisher Stokes dangled this golden fruit before the world's nose, more than...