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...just where your writer digs up this deluded data? The poor misguided jerk must either not have been around at all, or he went around once too often. We at Wilson High, Long Beach, pride ourselves on our high percentage of wheels, but we most certainly have no such idiosyncrasies as your article describes...
WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT DESERTED LONG ISLAND BEACH...
...PRIVATE BEACH, NO TRESPASSING...
...Morris Fineberg had covered World War I, many a fire, train wreck and disaster. Last week the city desk sent 56-year-old Photographer Fineberg out on a routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...
British officialdom was ready with instructions to cope with any emergency that might arise from the conflict. In the case of seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question...