Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON DEAD AS A HERRING exceedingly colorful and logical Is the fis hermans way of saving dead as a herring ask any fisherman and he will tell you that the herring has the peculiar characteristic of dying the moment it leaves the water very few men recall ever having seen a herring alive and this Is be cause the instant it Is taken out of its aquatic habitat it mikes one connul alve movement and expires bence the expression dead as a herring 1932 bell syndicate service |