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...Canterbury? The next step was to compare MS. 75 with the longest and best authenticated sample of Chaucer's handwriting-a five-line note written while he was controller of customs at the wool quay. Price looked up the note in the London Public Record Office, photographed it, and showed it to Professor Roger Mynors, an expert on medieval handwriting. Yes, said the professor, the writing in the note and the writing in MS. 75 were very much alike...
Transports were combat-loaded, i.e., "backwards," kitchen gear put aboard first because it probably would be needed last; assault vehicles loaded last so they would be on top and could be spewed out onto the grey ships. On the quay stood a few tight knots of women. The men were the ist Provisional Marine Brigade, well-trained and well-equipped but fewer than 5,000 strong. Their commander told them: "There will be casualties among you." At week's end, heavily convoyed, the expedition departed...
Also Charles Lawrence Mandelstam '49; William Cabot Martin '48; Richard David Mattuck '49; Wilbur Brooks Quay '50; Francis Dennis Smith '50; and Charles Herbert Tilly...
When the boat bearing the monstrous cheese docked at Glasgow in the fall of 1881, hundreds of cheering Scots lined the quay. Hundreds more pushed and shoved their way into Thomas Lipton's produce store on High Street when it went on display there. A few days later, tall, rawboned Owner Lipton had another thought: Why not hide gold pieces in the cheese and let the public know it? When the cheese was finally sliced up and sold on Christmas Eve, Glasgow shoppers mobbed the store, bought up every crumb of Lipton's "Jumbo" in two hours...
...some months in Munster Lager, not a million miles away ... Of course, I was working as a stevedore among the dockers and porters-I didn't see much of the higher-ups I'm afraid. But Lord, I feel I understood the people-the cutters and the quay cleaners, the dossmen...