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...condition of Theodore P. Robie and David Dove, both members of the class of '38 and first year medical students, who were the only students reported injured during the weekend, was described by Milford (Conn.) Hospital authorities as "not serious" last night. The men, hurt in an automobile accident, are "fairly comfortable," and "will be discharged...
Last week a more scientific way of dealing with starfish was reported by Science Service from the U. S. Fisheries Biological Laboratory at Milford, Conn. The method, successfully tested in Long Island Sound, is to drop a barrage of quicklime through the water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...
...Editorial Chairman Harold M. Curtiss '39, of Milford and Adams House, a member of the Varsity Baseball team and a CRIMSON editor, will serve in collaboration with Biographical Chairman James Tobin '39, of Champaign, Illinois, and Lowell House, who, as a debater, was formerly on the Student Union executive council...
Died. Sir George Louis Victor Henry Sergius Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, 45, brother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and cousin of the late King George V of England; after long illness resulting from a fractured thigh; in London...
...Junior Album competition. Those elected were Robert M. Bunker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, with 223 votes, Richard H. Sullivan, of Marietta, Ohio, with 215, James Tobin, of Champaign, Illinois, with 179, Robert E. L. Strider, 2d, of Wheeling, West Virginia, with 165, and Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., of Milford, with 164. Between the fourth and the seventh man in the 1939 race there was a margin of just five votes...