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...estimated at 11,500,000, or only one-quarter oyster for every man, woman & child in Great Britain. There is a shortage, blamed on the weather and U.S. invaders. The big freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets...
Fate of the Essex. There was a first draft of the book, but Melville was dissatisfied with it by the time it was finished. By then he had struck up an acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and had been reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Melville was so fired by such investigations of the human spirit that he decided to transform his own whaling story into something grander. He would "turn blubber into poetry...
...Literary Detective Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...
...best women tennis players in the U.S. were on view last week in a tournament at the Essex County Club in Manchester, Mass., and they had the stage to themselves. The men, who usually get the lion's share of attention from press and public, were playing elsewhere (at Newport, R.I.*). The galleries at Manchester were small, but those on hand had plenty to see. The net impression: the reign of the two current tennis queens, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough (26) and U.S. Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont (31), is seriously threatened for the first time in three years...
John D. Somes of Mein St., Sheffield; Sheffield High. Marshall S. Spiller of 1086 Morton St., Dorchester; Boston Public Latin. Lawrence M. Stone of 79 Essex St., Maldin; Meldin High. Herbert S. Swartz of 37 Bartlett Crescent, Brookline; Brookline High. Richard Terhune of 61 St. Mary's St., Newton Lower Falls; Newton High, Newtonville...