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That took the heart out of the Sturgis crowd. It was reduced to muttering about "police brutality." That night-under the watchful eyes of a detail of troopers-the local White Citizens League rallied, heard prayerful thanks because "God did not cross us with a sea gull or a crow." It was all just so much noise. Next morning Sturgis was as quiet as if it had always had an integrated school...
Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...
...towheaded, eight-year-old Benny Hooper of Manorville, N.Y. flew to Minneapolis with his parents and six-year-old sister Wendy for a week's fishing. His hosts: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman and nine-year-old son Mike, who angled unsuccessfully with Benny in Gull Lake (later, fishing with his father, Benny reeled in a creditable string of bass). Behaving as if he were running for governor himself, Benny paraded with a dairy princess, mugged happily at a press conference, offered the fruit of his experience to Young America: "Stay away from holes in the ground...
...told of the last day on the island, which included a feast of illegal undersized lobsters and the sampling of cooked gull...
...Herring Gull eggs are edible," said the advisor, "but they aren't particularly delicious. Tell them about the Eiders...