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...haired Brenda Carol and Beverley Lynn Townsend were born last November in the little hospital in the town of Tofield (pop. 800), Alberta, after a difficult, 2½-hour delivery. Dr. William Freebury had little hope for their survival when he saw that they were solidly joined (from the third rib to the navel), facing each other. A minister was called to baptize them when they were only ten minutes old. Their combined weight was 9¾ pounds...
Brenda and Beverley grew into pretty babies, more than doubled their weight in 5½ months. Often one twin was wakeful while the other slept, or laughed while her sister cried. With four hands to reach for a bottle, feeding was sometimes a comedy of errors. With four legs to kick, diapering was doubly difficult. Sometimes Brenda put her fingers in Beverley's mouth, or the other way around...
...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
Then he spent a brief, unhappy term working for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express-a career terminated by a typically Waughlike misunderstanding. One day Editor Beverley Baxter saw Evelyn lolling in a chair in the reporters' room, and asked him his name. "Waw," was the answer that reached Baxter's ears, and, thinking that the young man was making a rude noise, the editor fired...
Into Victoria Barracks at Beverley, Yorkshire, one day last week walked Walter Campbell, drummer of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He wanted to make sure of the medical benefits due all Britons under the new National Health Service Act, starting July 5. There was one difficulty. Drummer Campbell was a deserter, and had been since...