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Died. Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, 83, oldtime Royal Navy submarine expert, commander of World War I's famed Dover Patrol, which protected thousands of Allied soldiers from U-boats on the dangerous Channel crossing; in Romsey, Hampshire...
...amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York, he promptly ordered workmen to dump it off its trailer truck (see cut). It is now resting in a field near Yarmouth, awaiting a decision from Secretary General Trygve...
...boss of the War Shipping Administration's small vessels, he ran a fleet of hundreds of tugs, including those of private companies such as his own. His most brilliant feat was Operation Mulberry. The British had constructed two floating harbors, each the size of Dover. The 150 huge concrete caissons and 60 blunt-nosed ships (which formed the breakwater) were to be anchored off the Normandy beaches. But the problem of towing them across got so snarled up that Ed Moran was finally called in to straighten it out, was put in charge of the whole operation...
...People (at least in the U.S.) are getting less well-educated, reported Principal George H. Henry of a Dover, Del. high school in the January Ladies' Home Journal...
...Turks, who made slaves of Coxere and his mates-"in chains, two and two together. . . . Several nations of us ... and all lousy." After 20 years of such experiences, along with savage sea battles and shipwrecks, Ned Coxere turned Quaker, quit the sea-and served a spell in a Dover jail as a religious heretic...