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Working Committee. In Peterborough, Ont., when the mayor asked an opinion on the ideal size of a group to study a proposed junior college project, Alderman Ross Dobbin volunteered: "Three people -one dead and one out of town...
...send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
...nearly a breach of contract, but law professor William W. McCurdy got his Horse Dobbin yesterday. Dobbin, a mythical beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting...
...Dobbin Succumbs. Young Ernie, nicknamed "Shag" for his pinkish, shaggy hair, was a born listener. Too small and bashful to play much with the other kids, he liked to sit around and hear the grown ups talk. What he heard he remembered...
...that came to the Pyle house. And he had a solid respect for facts. As a schoolboy, assigned to write a composition about a visit to the county courthouse, he reported; "Many interesting statistics were brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than $72 and the average auto is slightly above $330. Dobbin still...