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...Midwest and East, a few brash catfish, who didn't know any better, were about the only fish biting. May had been a month of rain, leaving trout streams high and coffee-colored. As the waters went down last week, the blood pressure of 15 million U.S. fishermen (20% above the prewar high) went up. It looked like a big year...
During the war, when fishermen were scarce, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service went on stocking lakes and streams with its usual 7,000,000,000 fish and fish eggs a year. State hatcheries fed them on horse meat and liver (rainbow trout got an extra pinch of paprika for coloring). After four years, a fine fish crop was ready & waiting. Only drawback: a shortage of fishing tackle...
...Artist Ryder, with no faith to cling to, desperately sought to recapture his artistic vitality by painting in the Latin American jungles. Result: he became a bigger social success. "Mr. Ryder," the best critics agreed (in one of Waugh's inimitable parodies of claptrap), "rises like a young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture . . . focussing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism. . . . Mr. Ryder has. found himself." But Anthony Blanche could not be fooled...
...Americans discovered Newfoundland, found its rivers teeming with trout and salmon, its interior full of moose, caribou and partridge. They found "the latch is off the door" truly expressive of the hospitable islanders...
Paul ("Dizzy") Trout, well rested, calmly polished his glasses after nearly every pitch, and polished off the Cubs with five hits. Score: Detroit 4, Chicago...