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When the Virginia trout season opened last week, President Hoover dropped all official business at the White House, went hurrying away to his Rapidan Camp for his first weekend outing since last October. His guests were Secretaries Lament and Wilbur, Attorney General Mitchell. Mrs. Hoover was away in Philadelphia. The Rapidan party was stag...
Though it was almost dusk when he arrived at his camp. President Hoover impatiently broke out his tackle, began casting with a "Royal Coachman" and a "Grizzly King." Next day he used the same flies, plus a "Silver Doctor." Into his creel went 20 trout, the legal limit. No Sunday fisherman, he visited the school he had built near his camp, questioned Miss Christine Vest on the progress of her 18 pupils...
...modest place with a little land," he described The Benches into which he and Mrs. Coolidge will move next month from Massasoit St. Set on a nine-acre wooded tract through which flows a private trout stream, the 16-room house was designed by Manhattan Architects Murphy & Dana in 1914 for Henry Noble MacCracken, then Professor of English at Smith College, now president of Vassar. Morris L. Comey, textile manufacturer, bought it from Dr. MacCracken. His widow sold it to Citizen Coolidge...
...only one like it east of Yellowstone, will be approached from Knoxville or Asheville. It will be about 50 by 25 miles in area. Without spoiling the landscape, the U. S. will build trunk roads and trails, camp shelters, telephone lines. Hunting will be prohibited, but 400 miles of trout-filled streams will be open to visiting fishermen...
...conceived the idea of making familiar to the public the women who were back of the successful men of the day . . . labeled the series 'Unknown Wives of Great Men' and 'Clever Daughters of Clever Men.' The alliterative titles at once attracted paragraphers; they fell upon them like hungry trout. . . . This is exactly what the editor wanted...