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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
I read "The Old Man and the Boy" in Field and Stream all through the mid to late fifties and maybe into the sixties. My dad must have been renewing my subscriptions religiously because I still have a shelf full of F&S, never having discarded a single issue. Of course, all of them included Corey Ford's "The Lower Forty". Dad knew Ruark through cocktail parties in D.C. while Ruark was employed by the Washington Daily News. I would kill to ad his News columns to my meager Ruark collection. I guess they are lost for eternity.
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If the WDN is included on Newspapers.com, you may find them there. I let my subscription lapse or I would check.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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