Cockle Picking Tragedy Averted

It's not so much that the Cockle Pickers were saved. It was that it was reported in the Chicago Sun Times hours after it is said to have happened.

I wasn't aware the Sun Times kept that close a tab on the lives and worries of England's Cockle Pickers. Is there some connection? Are Cockles part of the daily diet of the denizens of Daly's city? Somehow, I doubt it. Chicago, the last time I looked, was a beef town. Thousands of cows were slaughtered there daily.

The first time I was in Chicago, in the late '60s, the entire town smelled like a freshly opened can of . =30=