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...still a market--on Saturday evenings Dock Square is a frenzy of buying and selling, pushcarts laden with produce, chatter in half a dozen tongues. And looking down from its perch high above the Tower squats the huge grasshopper weather-vane. Hammered from sheet copper in 1742 by Deacon Shem Drowne, this grasshopper has sat atop Faneuil Hall for 200 years. In the earthquake of 1775 it fell to the street and suffered a broken leg, but was run up again as fast as it could be repaired...
Samuel Cooper once said, "Any man who claims to be a Bostonian and can't tell what the Faneuil Hall weather-vane is, must be an impostor." Faneuil Hall later became known as "the grasshopper market," but no one was quite sure why Shem Drowne had chosen that particular design. The story goes, however, that one day in his youth Shem struck up a conversation with a boy who was chasing a grasshopper. The boy took him home for dinner, and later Shem was adopted by the boy's parents. Years later, remembering the grasshopper that had brought about...
...Wilmot '51 carried off the water-flecked laurels in the wherry race, pushing his mahogony-stained ark across the finish line six lengths ahead of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who were rowing as a team with two of every kind of oars...
...flats of Flushing were no lovers' lane last week. At U.N., the quarreling sons of Shem* had gathered to dispute the title to their ancient dwelling place. The problem of Palestine engrossed the 55-nation tribunal of the General Assembly...
...According to the Bible, all the races of man are descended from Ham, Shem and Japheth, the three sons of Noah: from Shem come the Semites (including Jews and Arabs). At the U.N., Arabs often call the Jews "our cousins...