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...anti-Court plan man, the President gave the silent treatment. But the crowd saw smiling Pat McCarran beside the President and cheered him loudly, shouted for him to speak. "It's nice to see you," grinned happy Pat McCarran. Later the President publicly thanked him for several Nevada trout...
...during the World War, to cut the original Mt. Olympus monument area almost in half so as to stimulate private prospecting for manganese ore. Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries of the new park...
...Springfield, Vt. last fortnight, Rev. Lawrence Larrowe, youngish Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...
French truck drivers, drawing triple pay, were going out of Leftist Spain last week sporting gold wrist watches, silk socks & shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week...
Meanwhile, in groups large & small, many Leftist Spanish soldiers came half-famished through the crags of the Pyrenees, stumbling over crests white with eternal snow (see cut). They straggled down the valleys, handed their guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have...