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Some of the nurses attending the Dionne quintuplets have shown themselves somewhat hardboiled, what with having to stave off Papa & Mama Dionne and the Press with everything from blistering threats to muscular force. Last week all the nurses were notified that after June 1 their services will no longer be required. On that date the Quintuplets' Board of Guardians, chairmanned by Ontario Surrogate H. R. Valin, will hand them over for future bringing up to the gentle Grey Nuns of Ontario's Pembroke Diocese...
...that his Cabinet, like all French Cabinets before it, is in a bad way, and that before long there will be more hair-tearing and grinding of molars in the Chambers. The support given to an emergency Cabinet, and the prestige of its veteran, good-natured leader, can only stave off for a time the woes to which France's parliamentary system dooms her. The wide acclaim of Doumergue's accession has nothing to do with the case, for he is wedded to a Cabinet system with a caricature of responsibility. Only the President, with senatorial approval, can dissolve...
Coach Wesley Fesler has again revised his lineup in an attempt to stave off the attack of the heavily favored Cornell team, starting the sophomore trio of Comfort, Erust, and Grady...
...Cornell has the Mangan-protege Vipond in this race, and the Big Green has Quimby, also a first class distance man; but they will both have been considerably de-energized by their race in the 1000 yard run event. It remains to be seen whether these iron men can stave off the fresh Harvard milers, Hallowell, who incidentally, has been coming along nicely this year, and Jack Scheu. In the two mile run Cornell is entering Bruce Kerr who took fourth in the IC4A 3000 meter run. Harvard enters Playfair and Dartmouth sends in Lepreau. From this point on, namely...
...voted against it, veterans would never forgive him. About the House Chamber circulated pitiful pleas that the Administration help its friends out of their predicament by getting the Ways & Means committee to report the bill unfavorably before the petition becomes effective, a piece of parliamentary hocus-pocus that would stave off a record vote...