SCHOOL FOR POLITICIANS

OR

WHEN  IN THE MUSIC HALL WATCH YOURSELF

NEVER CROSS THE PLAYERS

THE CLOWNS,

THE FOOLS

THE MAKERS OF THE MUSIC

THE ACROBATS

THE HORSES

AND THE TELLERS OF THE TALES

NEVER ALLOW THEM TO TAKE YOUR MEASURE.

NEVER GET ON OR OFF ON THEIR WRONG SIDE.

THEY ARE ALWAYS RIGHT

EVEN WHEN THEY ARE LEFT

THEY ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH

Let them be well us’d for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. 
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

Hamlet

1946- 1950

                                    

                    for anglers too young to remember

   Under correction, I want to make the case that those four short years of my title, immediately after WW II, were a period of expansion in the technology of angling unmatched in the history of the sport. Never before or since has so much happened so fast. So much and so fast that I hardly know where to begin this narrative.