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Tigers. Strong in pitching: Paul Trout (4-F), Hal Newhouser (4-F), Frank Overmire (4-F). Weak in hitting...
...wise and witty pedant: a lover of Greek verses, a professor of rhetoric, a biographer of Beethoven. He was the rotund trencherman: in the piping days of peace, he lunched on soup, a couple of trout, a partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States...
...film is gifted Director Lewis Milestone's best since All Quiet on the Western trout (1930). It is also extremely effective propaganda. But sober and well-informed cinemaddicts may have some doubts about it. The Purple Heart is fiction, but it is fiction about some still rather foggy historical facts. As it is very persuasively played, it is likely to be accepted as truth by a great many people not all of whom will be able to judge where fact ends and fiction begins...
...nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry...
...they expected to jump production still higher, and have already salted away $50,000 worth of salmon eggs for canning. But unless WPB relents, the industry will have to shut up shop March 1. By the end of summer, the supply of canned eggs on hand will be exhausted. Trout fishers who have used salmon eggs from Alaska to Scotland will have to go back to fly casting, or give...