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...Heaven and Ike's in the White House and has a commendable score in golf and a long string of trout ... To many, shocked by the deep-freeze-mink-coat-elec-tion-campaign mess, it should now be regrettably obvious that the electorate sacrificed Abe Lincoln Stevenson for General Ulysses Grant Eisenhower. Everybody likes Ike, but not everything and everybody that Ike likes...
...asks in a quaint prose, "to deceive a trout with an artificial fly-a trout that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled falcon is bold?" Deceiving trout with worms is also an art, the author believes, and a sport, too. He recommends "lively, quick, stirring" earthworms fattened on cream and eggs...
That night Ike settled into the South Dakota State Game Lodge where, in 1927, Calvin Coolidge outraged the nation's anglers by admitting that he was fishing for trout with worms. Redeeming his predecessor's conduct (which was denounced on the Senate floor by the late James A. Reed of Missouri), Ike offered the French Creek trout dry flies and a Colorado spinner. In a full day's fishing he caught a dozen trout. The biggest: a 15-incher weighing more than...
...headed for the nine-hole Centre Hills Country Club. At noon, the brothers went back to the house to grab up fishing tackle, then set off for an afternoon's fishing (dry fly) on a nearby private estate. In five hours, the happy President hooked and landed 20 trout (brown, rainbow, brook). He threw back all but the five biggest, which were duly photographed, cooked and eaten...
...rich storehouse of Americana at Fair Lane were the love letters of Ford to his wife, Clara, a paper boy's receipt for 45? that Ford paid him in 1894, a receipted bill for four pounds of trout (price 72?) delivered in 1906, the bill for the gasoline for his first car, letters from Presidents and crowned heads, and thousands of letters that Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested...