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...York, a clam digger named Cornelius J. Broere conceived a novel legal theory: that towing a floating corpse to shore is as much a salvage operation as towing an abandoned ship to safety. He filed a libel action under the provisions of Admiralty Law for $2,133 discovered in the pockets of a dead man he fished out of Great South...
...professors; and sure enough, Wellesley had produced a candidate, although not a professor. The candidate was a college woman named Martha Sharp. But she had never worried Joe. "Do you want to take your troubles to a little girl?" Joe asked the Portuguese workers at a Fall River clam boil.* It wasn't necessary to say much more than that. Joe was not worried about his district. What he was tensely waiting for were the results which would tell him whether the Republicans all across the U.S. were back in power...
Some of the more spirited debates concern the personality of Superman; even shy children who clam up on everything else have strong opinions about the comics. Primary-graders talk about Cinderella, Dumbo and the Little Red Hen. More mature students may discuss the characters in Macbeth and how they got that...
...year-old Boston Herald regards tradition as no laughing matter. Yet for 16 years it has permitted itself and its readers a daily exception. In the cartoons of droll, deadpanned Francis W. Dahl, it has needled the Watch & Ward Society, kidded the champions of real New England (tomato-less) clam chowder,*poked fun at the customs and costumes of Beacon Hill...
...Dewey had remained almost clam-silent since his defeat last year, plugging away as governor of New York. This week his hand-picked candidate for mayor of New York (Judge Jonah J. Goldstein) was slated for a decisive beating at the polls, which was not likely to enhance Tom Dewey's political prestige. Governor Dewey also had his own personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination...