"Give me a chance to go hunting," grinned President Eisenhower, "and I'm not going to fool around." The President, seizing his first opportunity in three years, flew down to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Thomasville, Ga. plantation last week for a brief quail-shooting holiday. Five minutes after he arrived, on the afternoon of Lincoln's birthday, Ike was togged out in a natty corduroy cap, green windbreaker, whipcord jodhpurs and (as a protection against the locally prevalent rattlesnakes) sturdy natural-leather boots. Under his right arm, the President carried two shotguns, which he had carefully selected from his own collection: a standard...
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