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...Post-Mortem for Taxpayers
Next day, at a doleful post-mortem meeting of Labor's executive committee, Bevan generously refrained from mentioning the debacle in Commons, gently persuaded the party to set up a subcommittee to re-examine Labor's position on foreign policy. Bevan and two of his left-wing followers were named to it; Herbert Morrison was pointedly...
...Then he did a routine day's work, after which he spent a second night finishing the reconstruction of Emily Kaye. The resulting "masterpiece" helped to send her murderer to the gallows-where Sir Bernard, quiet and efficient as ever, was on hand to perform the official post-mortem and confirm that death had resulted from dislocation of the murderer's spine "between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae...
...always been his custom to order his post-mortem forms in batches of 500. Toward the end of 1947, he ordered only 100. When he had used most of them, he wrote to a colleague in Switzerland saying that he refused to "linger on to become a burden to others." The week before Christmas, he filled out the last of the forms and put it in the mailbox. He informed his garage staff that he would not be seeing them over the New Year, and gave them their Christmas presents. That night he was found dead in his laboratory, beside...
...venerable Ivy League was treated to an angry post-mortem after the rough-house Dartmouth-Princeton game which sidelined twelve players, including Princeton's All-America Halfback Dick Kazmaier (concussion and broken nose) and Dartmouth Quarterback Jim Miller (broken leg). Princeton Quarterback George Stevens accused Dartmouth End Don Myers of deliberately trying to knock Kazmaier out of the game; other Princetonians claimed that Myers had also wound up another play by booting a Tiger lineman in the back. ¶The rough & ready Southwest Conference produced a "grudge game" which even had the eyes of Texans popping. At one point...