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...chronic bumbler), is the novel's antihero. Shouts of triumph or yelps of protest are not for schlemiels; Benny's conversation is limited to "What?" and "Wha." The alligators come into it when he arrives in New York after a Navy hitch-the liberty scenes in Norfolk are done with loving verity-and needs a job. So he gets one shooting alligators for the city. This keeps him in beer, and more he does not need. He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging to the Whole Sick Crew, a jackdaw's collection...
...Beaumont, Texas, last week a U.S. Coast Guard board of inquiry sought to solve the mystery of the Marine Sulphur Queen. A 523-ft. converted tanker, the Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew...
...TEMPEST Norfolk...
...just to prove that she was an ardent supporter of Massachusetts' millinery industry. She is an unabashed Massachusetts booster. At the inaugural dinner, for example, her menu consisted entirely of Massachusetts-produced foods: baked Essex clams, Suffolk celery hearts, roast. Cape Cod duckling and cranberries, mashed Middlesex squash, Norfolk tomatoes, hearts of Boston lettuce, Parker House rolls, and Toll House cookies. "There are so many things a woman can do that need to be done," Toni says. "Jackie Kennedy showed the way for the rest of us. Think of all the history here in Massachusetts and our wonderful museums...
...merger schemes of their own, all designed to cut costs by eliminating overlapping lines, yards, offices and work forces. "This is a great forward step." said Chairman James M. Symes of the Pennsylvania, which is driving toward merger with the New York Central. Stuart Saunders, president of the moneymaking Norfolk & Western, which is cooking up a merger with the Nickel Plate, said he was "very much encouraged...