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...Brian, Hugh Downs, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Phil Silvers, Hal March, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano. Kyle Rote. Charley Conerly. Frank Gifford, James A. Farley. Jackie Gleason could not make it, but he sent a mass of fall flowers and a pal's salutation, which began: "Dear Clam Head...
...extract two droplets from the flood: the book reveals that the four cords of wood that Dr. Lewis asked his son to chop on Feb. 23, 1903, were really 4¼ cords, and that on a Canadian trip in 1924 Lewis passed through Goose Lake, Snake Lake, Trout Lake, Clam Lake and Lac la Ronge. Research is the opium of the biographers; when the fit is on them, any fact, no matter how small, must be included just because it is available...
...Kennedy was born, 75 miles across the state and a world apart, in his father's big home in Brookline. Both Lawrence O'Brien Sr. and Myra Sweeney O'Brien were immigrants from County Cork. Myra was a proud, slender woman and a talented cook-her clam chowder, beef stew and soda bread were locally celebrated-who had worked as a domestic before her marriage. O'Brien Sr. was a scrappy redhead, and an up-and-coming real estate operator. By the time young Larry was born, his father owned a string of drab roominghouses...
Filene's is lampooning the Lampoon this week by making an advertising gimmick of the magazine's spoof of advertising in its July Mademoiselle parody. Mannequins in death throes are advertising "clothes to be caught dead in"; others wear velvet straps, clam boots and pigeons pinned to the hems in order to deal with "problem knees"; and still others, struck by the "collectors rage," dip into bushels of mice and ensnare themselves in scotch tape and telephone wires...
Nothing makes a clam happier than sewage seepage, but it might also make him a carrier of the hepatitis virus. New Jersey began checking its clam diggers to make sure that they were not harvesting in polluted waters...