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Each June for the last three years a locker in the coaches' room at Newell Boat House has been left vacant over the summer and regularly a new coach's clothes have hung there the next all. The crew shorts this fall belong to Derrick Wilde, University single sculling champion who succeeds Lee Rouner as the new 150 pound varsity and freshman coach. Rouner, who rowed with the varsity heavies for two years, is now in University Hall as an assistant dean of freshmen...
University sculling champion Derrick Wilde this fall succeeds Leroy Rouner as coach of the varsity and freshman 150-pound crews. Rouner gave up his come an assistant dean of freshmen...
What does matter is the anxiety it produces." One doctor's prescription for those whose inability to sleep is due to an empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught...
...coast of Louisiana last week, a strange-looking structure on ten giant steel "legs" hummed with activity. On its 203-ft.-long platform, propped 38 ft. above the water, lay all the tools, cables, pipe and machinery needed for oil drilling. In the center stood an oil derrick, at one end a helicopter landing space and a small portable bunkhouse. Built by Manhattan's DeLong Engineering & Construction Co. and J. Ray McDermott Co. of Houston, and leased to Humble Oil, the odd-looking dock-barge is the first of its kind in the world, promises to be a great...
First year law student Derrick Wilde wen the Darcey Memorial Cup for the second year in the finals of the 1954 University Sculling Regatta held yesterday afternoon on a smooth Charles River...