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...worker for 20 years, collapsed in the snow, later died in the hospital. Although the coroner ruled that Mrs. Cardy's death was not caused by strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed with women's hatpins. Children on the sidelines threw stone-filled snowballs...
Other irregularities. In Monday's election procedure also came to light as a result of the Applegate case, Because of a mix-up, Applegate's nominating petition, duly signed by 30 Yardlings, as well as that of Rodman F. Duane, were submitted to John H. Carnahan '50, Council member in charge of the election, after the ballots had already been printed...
...admitted, however, that the Council has deviated from its own constitution by forming the nominating committees on a House rather than on a class basis, but said that the deviation was hardly "arbitrary" since "the post-war class mix-up makes class nominations wholly impractical...
...hospital admitted that the baby had been marked "male" and that the birth certificate said the same, but claimed that the mix-up was merely in the records. Osteopath John M. Andrews explained that when the baby arrived he took it "upside down and backwards . . . noted it had two hands and feet" and hastily handed it to a nurse, as Mrs. Hardwig needed all his attention. On the basis of this casual observation from the rear, he had said the child was a boy, and the nurse obediently wrote it down...
...pecked husband, domineering wife, spinster sister-in-law, and haughty cook all enter the mix-up. Though some of the scenes where the maid, after finishing three bottles of Scotch, takes the baby out for a walk and makes long distance calls to California are as funny as the best comedies, "Three's A Family" is not always up to par. It is good in spots and barely gets by the rest of the time...