Word: doc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dode Fisk, 81, retired boss of a 25-car circus known as "Fisk's Great Combined Shows"; in Columbus, Ohio. Circus Man Fisk's funeral came off precisely as he had requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining...
Otherwise, Canterburians (tuition and board: $1,500) lead a normal prep-school existence. On their campus are no priests or monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians...
...Doc" is fat, has fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...Sweeney of the American Eagle Squadron, training as air fighters in England. In jail in Italy was George Ehret, '29, accused of fooling around with Italian currency (TIME, Nov. 25). Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under the Doc's very nose, had to stand up and apologize...
...Said the Doc last week: "Canterbury began on an $8,000 shoe string. Today it is a million-dollar educational plant devoted to the cause of Catholic Action . . . only school of its kind, really. . . . Sometimes I can hardly believe Canterbury is what it is today...