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Days with Punch, Endicott Peabody was born in Salem, Mass, in 1857. His family tree was one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. One of his ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...
...make sure that its secrets remained secret, inadvertent passers-by were also hanged forthwith. For signature, the Feme stuck a knife in the gallows tree and carved four letters: S.S.G.G., for Strick, Stein, Gras, Grun (Rope, Stone, Grass, Green). Folklore interpreted this literally as noose, headstone and grassy grave...
Irvin S. (for Shrewsbury) Cobb, famed American humorist, whose last touch of humor-revealed after his death last March-was a request for a simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...
...much of his life in the pink stucco house where he was born. As a youth he studied painting in Paris, but he was unsuccessful with the brush. Not until he was 40 did he have any working knowledge of sculpture. Then one day he picked up a fallen tree trunk, from it carved a woman's figure. For the next 42 years he devoted himself almost entirely to carving and modeling female forms. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have seen the figures of all the women of my native province...