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Tough Regulations. Last February, faced with a new dock strike, conservative Prime Minister Sidney Holland decided he would not permit the Communists to use democracy in order to destroy it. He announced a state of national emergency, declared the Waterside Workers an illegal organization, seized its funds. Soldiers, sailors and airmen were ordered to load ships...
...round-trip excursion steamer to Saint-Malo, Brittany, hired a small sports car for ten days. Headlights blazing, the car flashed through the deserted streets of Southampton just before midnight, screeched to a stop at the dockside. The two men tossed a couple of shillings to the dock attendant, shouted "Buy yourself a drink," and leaped aboard the steamer. "What about the car?" the man called. "We'll be back Monday," they answered...
Died. Dr. George Dock, 91, famed pathologist and associate of the late great Sir William Osier; of a heart attack; in Altadena, Calif. One of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at St. Louis' Washington University), he published the first successful diagnosis of coronary thrombosis, wrote scores of wryly humorous papers on a wide variety of medical subjects (typical Dock title: The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better...
Louis Lefevre and Dock Wilde, of Weld North and Thayer respectively, finished in a dead heat at 3:49 in the freshman singles. A Thayer man, Arnold Glendinning, also took the Yardling Wherries in four minutes. Stoughton's John Wright won the '54 comps with a 3:58 time...
This year, the cost of keeping up the dock, which is usually hard hit by the Atlantic storms in the winter, forced the University to suggest that donations be made. However, it is noted that all contributions are deductable on income tax returns...