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Lady on the Beach is the story of Norah and her husband, Old Sarge, who left the city to settle down to a quiet life of beachcombing, clam digging, crabbing, reading and talking in the down-at-the-heels seaside community-a "poor man's Paradise." But Norah and her Old Sarge no longer have the quiet and contentment they once sought. Says Book Critic Lewis Gannett in the New York Herald Tribune: "It's fun to read. But Norah says the letter in TIME brought a host of tourists down the new improved highway to Ocean City...
...theta being in outer space billions of years ago. ("Things are as rough in outer space as they are here," says a devout Hubbardian. "Anything can happen.") If a subject has a pain in his jaw, it may be that in an earlier spiral he was a clam. If this pain is associated with fear of falling, he must have been a clam that was picked up by a bird and dropped on the rocks...
Personality: Stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 183 Ibs.) and bald, with a fringe of grey hair, a cool, methodical Yankee (his favorite breakfast dish: clam broth). He is a Unitarian. He spends as much time as possible at his New Hampshire farm, where he raises dairy and beef cattle. His six children (three sons, three daughters) have presented him with twelve grandchildren. His first wife, Beatrice Dowse, died in 1945. He was married in 1948 to Mrs. Jane Tompkins Rankin of Nashville...
...surprising news to us eggheads that we have less influence than the clam-heads over the blockheads...
...book she has not only viewed etiquette as a cradle-to-the-grave proposition, but turned out advice (most of it highly sensible) on almost every conceivable aspect of life. Amid voluminous dissertations on manners she does not hesitate to write: "Nothing, not even a bad clam, is ever spit, however surreptitiously, into a napkin. But it is sheer masochism to down . . . something really spoiled." What to do? She suggests depositing partly chewed food with the fork on the side of the plate, to be quickly "screened" thereafter with celery or bread. Other items...