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Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Wolcott ("Doc") Ryder, 68, much-decorated Army hero of both world wars, who in 1942 commanded the Allied invasion force that hit eastern Algeria and proceeded to mop up the entire country within 76 hours (while he and Envoy Robert Murphy negotiated the end of French resistance with Vichy's Admiral Jean Darlan in Algiers); of a heart attack; in Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...Clan fans (Sinatra, disguised in blackface, asks Sammy Davis Jr.: "How do you get this stuff off?"). And for students of the ridiculous, there is a memorable doctor's-office line. Says ailing Richard Conte to a solemn-faced physician: "You can give it to me straight, doc. Is it big casino...
...worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie and Mattie got tired of being cooped up while the men were on the town. Once they decided to explore the place themselves, and were promptly picked up. As Allie remembered it: "I ain't goin...
...threats, the quarrel between the U.S. and Cuba met with a disquieting passivity in Latin America. Though governments might know better, their people generally side with Castro. Then Khrushchev proclaimed that any attack on Cuba would bring instant retaliation against the U.S. by Soviet intercontinental missiles. The Monroe Doc trine, he said, is dead, and should be buried "so that it should not poison the air by its decay." At this point, 17 Latin American nations dropped their apathetic neutrality to side with the U.S. in mutual concern over a Soviet incursion in Latin America. The unilateral Monroe Doctrine...
Oceanographer Ewing, called "Doc" by admirers and "The Dragon" by some others, was born in Lockney, Texas of a farm family. He put himself through Houston's Rice Institute, taught physics at Lehigh University. In 1934 he got a summer job tossing hunks of blasting gelatin from a whaleboat off the East Coast so that the recorded shock waves could be used to study the sediments on the bottom. Ever since, the ocean's bottom has been Maurice Swing's oyster. But unlike most oceanographers, he is no sentimental sea dog. He dislikes the ocean itself...