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...rough seas running off Clark's Point, Alaska, a small skiff put out. It carried a heart specialist and his assistants, but they were not on an errand of mercy. Curiosity-the kind of curiosity that kills cats for science-led them on. They were looking for a whale; they wanted to feel its pulse...
...fever disappeared after the first day. He ate well, slept well, kept trying to whale away at his work, and actually managed to act on 233 bills during his three days in the hospital. But this took some doing. A chest man examined him. An abdomen man examined him. An eye man examined him. So did a heart man. Before he was through, eight different specialists had thumped, pummeled, probed, peered and questioned...
...appearance in Abilene . . . dedicating the Eisenhower Memorial Foundation . . . This speech hit me so hard that I tried all afternoon to get a transcript of it ... Some of America's best-known newspapermen didn't even bother to cover the event . . . I think they missed out on a whale of a human document...
Distinguished Nuts & Flappers. His task, said Northcliffe, was "to get the old barnacle-covered whale off the rocks and safely into the deep water." He promptly fired George Earle Buckle, editor for 28 years, and put in Geoffrey Dawson, who had been one of the paper's top foreign correspondents. Northcliffe, who seldom worked from the Times office, harried Editor Dawson by phone, cable and mail from watering places all over the Continent. He bombarded his staff of "weaklings" and "dullards" with denunciations and demands, called himself "the Ogre of Fleet Street," and often signed his orders "Lord Vigour...
...voyager more than just a place to spread his blanket. Rockport presents a thriving art colony with exhibitions by some of America's most noted painters. Salem offers Nathaniel Hawthorne and his original House of Seven Gables, while Gloucester provides a chance for an inlander to get a whale's-eye view of New England's famed fishing industry...