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Captain Carroll T. Bonny retired last summer as the University's N.R.O.T.C. director and concluded 31 years in the service in the Navy. Captain Douglas V. Glading, assistant chief of the Bureau of Navel Personnel, was named as his successor...
...Beverley Lynn Townsend were born last November in the little hospital in the town of Tofield (pop. 800), Alberta, after a difficult, 2½-hour delivery. Dr. William Freebury had little hope for their survival when he saw that they were solidly joined (from the third rib to the navel), facing each other. A minister was called to baptize them when they were only ten minutes old. Their combined weight was 9¾ pounds...
...often, Debby comes through as a cute curiosity instead of a character. She wonders what people do with the breath they save, worries in the morning whether she is the same Debby as the night before, frequently touches herself to be sure that her navel is still in front of her, and is always ready for a good fast game of marbles with the Merrill kids...
However badly his description may fit some of poetry's modern navel-contem-platers, Britain's Poet Laureate at least has remained true to his credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have...
...Complications (Oxford, $8.75). The first essential, he says, is still accurate diagnosis. And unfortunately, appendicitis does not always cause the textbook symptoms: e.g., nausea, pain and tenderness in the lower right-hand quarter of the belly. Pain may be felt anywhere in the abdomen, often above the navel, or even in the right shoulder. And appendicitis may hide under the symptoms of many other diseases...