All of the goldfish, red-eared turtles, and anoles we wereallowed to keep, then, didn’t really count. Nor did Jacques, ourhamster, the only mammalian pet to grace our home during myformative years. I know for a fact Jacques didn’t answer to hisname, because, when he managed to ...
Joseph William Martin, Jr. was a U.S. Republican congressional leader and speaker of the House of Representatives (1947–49; 1953–55). The son of a blacksmith, Martin declined a scholarship to Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) and instead took