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February 24, 1934

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Compleat Angler

Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE OF Edward Ringwood Hewitt, regarded for two or three decades as America's leading crack dry-fly, wet-fly, mouse, grasshopper, and bare-hands …

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a reporter at large

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