My most beloved gun collecting and bourbon drinking partner was Andrew J. Cummings, who died at 95 years old about ten years ago. He tells a story about Eugene Meyer, the owner of the Washington Post before the war, inviting a group of his friends, including Andrew's father, on a big game hunting trip to Canada. All these guys were bird hunters and dog handlers who hardly owned a high powered rifle among them. Mr. Meyer detoured the trip to Canada to New York so they could visit Abercrombie and Fitch. There, everyone picked out a rifle, all of which were paid for by Eugene Meyer. The Mannlicher rifle that Andrew's father picked out was still in Andrew's gun room when he died. It was a beautiful full stocked light gun, but I don't know the caliber. I don't know whether the Griffin and Howe premises was shared with Abercrombie and Fitch at that time, as it was when I first visited there in 1961 when I was 14 years old.
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