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Brief Encounter. In Salem, Mass., Robert C. Carter sued for divorce, complained bitterly that his wife had deserted him a block from the church, two minutes after the wedding...
...Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when...
...unpredictable Crowninshields, merchant mariners of Salem (Mass.), deserve a place of their own in New England history. They built one of the great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...
...love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...
...called Blue Laws was passed making it illegal to advertise or give information about contraceptive devices. As medical knowledge increased and Victorianism waned, the law sank into oblivion. In 1938, however, when birth control clinics were flourishing throughout the Commonwealth, the old law was unexpectedly enforced when the Salem Clinic was raided by police and the doctors arrested. The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth upheld the police action followed by the closing of all the clinics. Thus Massachusetts became one of the two states in the Union where contraceptive advice is outlawed. In 1942 a bill sponsored by the Planned...