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...ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic in Connecticut and sent to Edouard Stackpole, whaling expert and curator of the Peter Foulger Museum in Nantucket. Here are excerpts from Nickerson 's chronicle...
...sake that their friends should know their fate, Charles Ramsdell made the first proposition to cast lots. Captain Pollard would not listen to it, saying to the others "No, but if I die first you are welcome to subsist on my remains," and [Pollard's nephew Owen] Coffin joined in the entreaty to cast lots. They then cut some blank paper checks, [and] put them in a hat. The lot fell upon Coffin, which he distinctly declared to be a fair lot and that he wished to abide by it. Captain Pollard then declared that he would take...
...million -that's money, a figure that commands respect from coast to coast, or more precisely, from the Burbank studios to Manhattan's Network Row. It also happens to be the amount that Procter & Gamble spent on TV advertising last year. So when P & G Chairman Owen Butler spoke out last week about what the nation's No. 1 TV advertiser thought of television, he found an interested if hardly enthusiastic audience among broadcasters. His message: P & G is listening to the critics from the New Right who complain about sex and violence on prime time...
...back to Buckley, who right now is one of four quarterbacks on the New England roster, along with ailing Steve Grogan, Matt Cavanaugh and possible free-agent Tom Owen. The mathematics aren't bad: "Erhardt says he wants to go with three quarterbacks," Buckley said, "and if Owen leaves there may be a spot. This seems to be the ideal situation, and if I show them what I can do, maybe I can catch...
...S.D.P. has no single leader; instead it has a quartet consisting of Williams, Owen, and former senior Laborites William Rodgers, 52, and Roy Jenkins, 60. Unlike Labor and the Tories, the S.D.P. has no established grass-roots organization or detailed policies. Last week it announced a vague list of "twelve tasks," including a commitment to flexible wage and price controls, a mixed economy and nuclear defense. The S.D.P. leaders hope to capitalize on their early momentum and have budgeted $385,000 for a major media blitz. Their immediate aim is to swell the party's rolls-and coffers...