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January 11, 1947

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DRAGGER CAPTAIN: PROFESSORS ABROAD

Joseph Mitchell

PROFILE of dragger captain Ellery Franklin Thompson tells about Old Chrissy, an old rascal of a woman that was the head of a gang of Block Island wreckers.…

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