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EACK HOME—Rock 'n' roil singer Jerry Lee Lewis kisses his 13 year-old bride, Myra, on their arrival in New York from London. Lewis, 22, and Myra left England after the revelation of hi* marriage caused cancellation ©f his theater engagements. The singer was revealed to have married Myra before his divorce from his second wife became final.Rock *nr RiotWrapped, in. a, package called “The Big Best”, Dick Jockey Alan Freed has long rolled across the land, introducing rock 'n’ toll stars and keynoting gone, music, with the express intention »f inciting his teen-age followers le happy frenzy, Last month, the acknowledged “King of Rock ‘n’-Roll” rolled into Boston and set i up shop in its 7,200-seat Arena. Almost 5,000 hip kids poured in Hie Arena to catch his 17 acts, j including four bands, and starring Dreamboat Crooner Jerry. Lee Lewis.Frenzy soon set in. The aisles filled with dancers, and others got into the groove by jumping on their seats. The head of the 20 cops on hand decided that more light on the subject would help curb the'.crowd’s antics. The house lights were turned up. Then, according to Arena Manager Paul Brown' sincere-faced Deejay” Freed huff,ed “I guess the police here in Boston don’t want you kids to have a good time.” Whatever Freed said, the effect was magical. The Arena really began jumping — while Brawn paced his office, “praying it would end”,A while before midnight the. wound-up kids spilled into the streets. Just who was responsible for what happened next is * matter of dispute. All around the Arena common citizens were set upon, robbed, and sometimes beaten. A young sailor caught a Imife in the belly, and two girls with him were thrashed. In all, nine men and six women were roughed up enough to require hospital treatment. Boston police blamed Freed and his frenetic fans, but could not prove it, since they nabbed nobody.. Freed’s defenders pointed out that the Arena area has been the site of frequent muggings in the past; the toughs might simply have used the crowds pouring •out of the Arena as a cover.But Boston’s Mayor John Hynes did not want to hear arguments or evidence. He •ordered that no licenses be issued for any more rock ‘n’ roil shows, and a Boston grand jury returned an indictment against Freed—under an old “anti-anarchy” law — for inciting “the unlawful destruction of property”.. Professing alarm, and perhaps jumpy over growing criticism of juvenile delinquency, •officials in New Haven and Newark seized on the Boston incident is an excuse to ban scheduled Fpeed appearances.Freed promptly quit his 125,000-a-year job with Manhattan’s radio station WINS because it “failed to stand behind my policies and principles”, and raed to his Stamford, Conn. e to contemplate his grievances. Snapped Freed: “Those kids in Boston were the greatest —swell, wonderful kids. But the police were terrible.’—From Time.A Shell-less Snail With Lots Of ArmsMost people regard the octopus with horror, yet it is really one of the most remarkable of sea creatures, and nothing, .like so sinister as popular fiction would; have, us believe.It is difficult to decide which is the greater marvel — its peculiar structure, or the high degree of intelligence underlying its interesting habits.Who would believe that the octopus is related to the snail and the whelk? Or that its remote ancestors many millions of years ago lived in a coiled shell?The shed has been lost, and the flat muscular foot on which the ancestral octopus glided along like a snail has been converted into eight formidable arms each with an array of highly effieeient suckers, arranged in two rows and graded in size to match the gradual tapering ef the arms.In the cemre of this ring of arms is the creature’s mouth, complete with horny jaws very much. like a parrot’s beak to look at. and just as effective.The octopus' brain is so well developed that it is among th« most intelligent of all animals without backbones, and its eyesSe anjong the most efficient in e animal kingdom.It is in its hunting and feeding habits that the octopus shows its intelligence. Crab* lobsters are it* favourite food, and consequently it is not very popular with fishermen. It often gets into their lobster pots, leaving behind » collection of empty shells. -The. octopus is mainly an inshore animal, hiding during the daytime under overhangingcould not be closed again, and ;proceeded at leisure to claim his sreward. .Another incident demonstrates ,clearly the memory of the octo- ,. pus. Some captive specimens *known to be hungry were, given lt;some oysters. For a long lime 1they examined the shells with the tips of their arms, obviously trying to find a, way of opening them.They met with no success and eventually gave up.A week later they were again offered oysters, but as sOQri- as they recognized what they were they took no further interest in. them, and made on attempt to *. open them.Lobsters are more difficult for the octopus to catch than crabs.It is the lobster’s claws which are the danger. Once the octo-pus has managed to grip these Jwith its suckers the lobster is ,vanquished, but a prlonged bat- jtie of wits may Occur before a •really big lobster is over- (powered. ,An octopus is always a great ,attraction in an aquarium, but •it can also be a headache. Dur- \ing the night it often has an urge Ato visit other tanks to see what ,it can find, and has an amazing ^ability to squeeze through nar- ,row openings, tftiless a really £octopus-proof cover een be de- jvised for its tank, the aquarium’s £lobsters and oralis pg, likely to jconverted into heaps of ken Shells.When it leaves its lair at night the octopus has three methods of moving about in the water. If it wants to go really fast it does *so by jet-propulsion — achieved ;by breathing fast. Streams of fwater are always being drawn into the gill cavity and, after *passing over the gills, expelled 1through a tube called the siphon.When an octopus is at rest these 1
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Orono Weekly Times
Orono, Ontario, CA
Thu, Jun 12, 1958
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