Word: assisters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Author C. Northcote Parkinson [June 14] should be flogged around the fleet for suggesting that Hornblower was responsible for the timely death of H.M.S. Renown's dread Captain Sawyer. Any Hornblower student worth his salt pork knows that the most likely author of Sawyer's assist down the hatchway was Henry Wellard. Wellard is known to have suffered repeatedly under Sawyer's sadistic paranoia, and was described as "highly agitated" on the night of the incident. The testimony of the Marine corporal, Greenwood, places Wellard with Hornblower near the hatchway, and both Marine Captain Whiting and Lieut...
...broke up around them, the lovers in a final grand romantic gesture persuaded an officer to marry them. After they were captured by the Russians, Hilde escaped at the insistence of her "husband" (he survived, but she never saw him again) and arrived in Berlin just in time to assist at the rebirth of the German theater. The costumes were so makeshift they fell off on the stage, the actors so ill the director had to call an intermission for vomiting. Hilde then starred in The Murderers Are Among Us, Germany's first postwar film, and the same recklessness...
Socialized Medicine? Like their counterparts in Hoke, the two medics in Anson County do not prescribe drugs, but assist the nurses in whatever needs to be done-blood tests, immunizations, urinalyses, paper work. The remaining twelve members of the unit work at a variety of different tasks, clearing out clogged, mosquito-infested ditches, repairing dilapidated public buildings and teaching gym classes in the local schools...
Cchen-who deferred his appointment as librarian for ten months in order to assist Pennsylvania in the search for his successor-succeeds Earl Borgeson. Borgeson left for Stanford last summer after nearly two decades at the Law School...
...University isn't the only one who makes money off the event. Every year a few hundred students hang around for a week after school closes to assist Buildings and Grounds in erasing any traces of a year at Harvard that could upset an alumni wife (like scum in the shower stalls and marijuana seeds in the bureau drawers), and a few dozen of the best of these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew...