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...best piece of museum news I've had in weeks is that Atlantic Salmon from Canada's Sanguenay river are now on exhibit at the New England Aquarium. I wish them luck trying to swim upstream. K.E. Briney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GALLERIES | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...Ames, Mister"..."Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney. A few oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which Peter Lorre viciously murders) and Mafia friends save N.Y.C. from the Nazis when the police aren't watching in All Through the Night; the Russian film of Dostoevsky at Quincy; John Wayne in John Ford...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

This marked the second time in as many weeks that Purdey has been pryed from his position and plunked in the briney...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Heavies Whip Navy, Take Adams Cup | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...injured prowler sued the farm owners, Edward Briney and his wife, for $60,000; a jury awarded him half his claim. lowans were incredulous, but last week the state's supreme court upheld the verdict. "The primary issue," said the court in an 8-to-l decision, "is whether an owner may protect personal property in a boarded-up farmhouse by a spring gun capable of inflicting death or serious injury." It is an accepted rule that deadly force may not generally be used to protect property unless it is also necessary for self-defense. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Backfiring Booby Trap | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Three other oldsters will retire with Wallace, and in a long-delayed reshuffling of the staff, scholarly Russell Briney, 48, will move over from the C-J to replace him as editor. Wallace will contribute three columns a week. "I'll be interested to see," he mused, "if being editor emeritus has the same leverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uncle Tom Steps Down | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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