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...FRIDAY SOME kid just wandered around testily, yelling "Don't before me, my leg hurts." He got bit, you see, on the subway, by a seeing-eye dog. So Saturday night this Salem-smoking refugee from West Virginia comes in and says, "That line's been rollin' and tumblin' around my head all day. We gotta write a song about gittin' bit by a seeing-eye dog." His almost-heaven West Virginia accent laid me in the aisles, where I rolled over Tim Carlson, self-described "gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose, sloppy lunch eater" who kneed...
Doll Bilby is no ordinary Salem witch. As a child in Brittany she is forced to watch as her parents are burned at the stake for witchcraft. Later she is brought to the colonies by Sea Captain Jared Bilby, who is enchanted by her. In Massachusetts, Doll takes one look at Bilby's wife Hannah and is able to wither the fetus in her womb-or so Hannah later contends. At 19, Doll takes a lover named Shad, convinced he is a messenger from the King of Hell. Arrested as a witch, she dies in jail convinced not only...
Carter press secretary Jody Powell said that yesterday was Carter's last day of campaigning in the Bay State, and there were no plans to return Tuesday night. After the Faneuil Hall speech the Carter campaign convoy made a brief but high-in-symbolic-content visit to Salem before taking off for the South from Logan Airport...
...symbols of Salem can be seen in at least two ways. Having faced down the witchhunt in Boston of recent sniping by Jackson, Bayh and Udall, Carter was going to show his lack of fear at the site of the witchcraft trials...
Sandwiched between his softspoken rebuttal of Democratic backbiting at the Cradle of Liberty and his late afternoon take-off from Logan was a handshaking blitz at the Cradle of Monopoly--the Parker Brothers' games factory in Salem...