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...could do with a little amplification in the field of halieutics. George Washington's Diary records his frequent dealings with the perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary of State and successor, James Madison, traveled 300 miles by coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches], and perfectly phrased the ultimate test of a true sportsman, "He draweth not his flask...
Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...
...Sept. 7), and resumed his schedule of work & play. The President was refreshed and jaunty after a week in the air-cooled Rockies, although his bruised elbow had cut into his fishing (he did catch the biggest fish of the week, a 15⅜ in., 1¼ lb. rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international...
...During his seven-day absence, three large leather pouches, chained and padlocked, had arrived in Denver. Dozens of letters, written and typed up in Washington, awaited his approval and signature. The two-foot pile of "urgent" papers before him was higher than the length of the rainbow trout. With an audible sigh, Dwight Eisenhower settled down to work...
...pastime-cooking. He took full responsibility for the party's meals, noisily clanged the big outdoor dinner bell whenever chow was on. (One day's menu: breakfast-flapjacks and sausage; lunch-potato salad and Ike's special vegetable soup, which takes two days to make; dinner-trout and roasting ears.) In between meals, he loafed around, sometimes worked on a new oil painting-a mountain landscape...