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Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
...their boats to foreign nations, buying the catch at one cent a pound below Boston prices. But at week's end, best bet was that labor and management would get together in an armed truce to take up the defense against the foreign invasion. To Boston fishermen, even crow makes better eating than foreign...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
...York Herald Tribune sport editor, Stanley ("Coach") Woodward, threw the first brick. Wrote he: ". . . it is doubtful that any Negro will compete ... in view of the fact that he will have to travel to the scene in Jim Crow day coaches, and can expect nothing on arrival except segregation and abuse." Then Woodward steamed out to arrange a rival meet on the same day in some "civilized community," talked about renting New York's Randalls Island Stadium...
...Oswald Mosley, Britain's prewar fascist leader who spent most of the war years in the clink (for the empire's protection), was haled to court for neglecting the pigs on his Crow Wood Farm. An in spector said that the pigs - 76 in a pen 40-by-35 ft. - looked underfed and "most unhappy." Worms, not starvation, made the pigs look peaked, Sir Oswald explained, and was promptly freed...