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...that Harry Truman thoroughly enjoys and he joined in with zest. Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.* Margaret wore a shoe-length slicker and sou'wester, which made her look like a Morton Salt boy. She was told to mount watch for Davy Jones, who traditionally appears the day before crossing...
...debt-ridden fishermen, fed up to their sou'westers, started a cooperative: Syndicat des Pêcheurs de Grande Rivière. They bought their gear wholesale, sold their fish cooperatively, ended the year with $3,276 surplus or $109 apiece. By last year the co-op had 90 members and earned $39,984 surplus, better than $400 a man. A draft, now figured at 224 lbs., fetched $12. Wartime prices for cod had helped, but the big saving had been in fishing costs. In World War I, when prices generally were even higher, a draft fetched only...
Louder and Sunnier. With weather and the U. S. lending more & more aid, British confidence grew loud. Last week Nazi night raids on London eased up in the face of bad weather, and early this week, with a sou'wester howling on the Channel, Londoners experienced their first all-clear night...
...published the exultant story she found time to write. "No alarm clocks, no boss, no schedules . . . plenty of time just to relax and feel the ship under you. Time to stroll along the white sand, hunting wild asparagus. You can dawdle as long as you wish, watching the sou'easter that holds you in harbor...
...small girl she loved an impressionist landscape her aunt had painted before Impressionism existed. As an art teacher until she was 40, when she married Manhattan Lawyer Cornelius J. Sullivan, Mary Quinn kept buying the work of unknown artists. Once she stranded herself in Paris by spending every sou she had with her on a Rouault and a Segonzac. She never had resources like those of her good friends Abby Rockefeller and the late Lizzie P. Bliss, with whom she helped found the Museum of Modern Art in 1929. But Mary Quinn Sullivan's pioneering judgment brought...