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Second, ablest and most energetic of the Hearst sons, tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and balding at 43, he looks remarkably like his father, but lacks old W.R.'s iron will and steel-trap mind. But of all the sons, Bill has worked hardest at earning his newspaper spurs. While attending a small military academy in San Rafael, Calif., he spent his vacations working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American...
Their affair ends just as World War II begins. For Ferris, it means a late reprieve from the "little-death" trap...
...trapshooting with frills, designed to make trapshooting as much as possible like game-bird shooting. In skeet's basic 25-shot round, each shooter follows an identical routine: 1) two single shots, from each of the eight field stations, at clay pigeons sprung into the air from each trap house at 70 m.p.h.; 2) double shots from stations 1, 2, 6 and 7, at birds sprung simultaneously, one coming toward him, one going away; 3) an optional shot from any station (bringing the total to 25 and usually taken wherever the gunner misses his first bird...
...natural weaving styles on the special platforms they end up weaving cylinders of silk instead of normal cocoons. The two escape vales through which the mature moth must emerge are set at opposite points of the eliptical double layer cocoon, so that the insect is forever sealed within a trap of its own making...
Handy Around the House. In Chicago, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Dorothy Lokes explained to the judge what she meant by cruelty: her husband rigged tin cans around the door, then when she tripped the trap, he woke up and thrashed her for being late...