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Eric Franck of Antwerp, Belgium; James M. Graves of Southport, Conn.; John R. McLane 3d of Manchester, N. H.; Joseph B. Poindexter (Capt.) of Stepney, Conn.; Langdon M. Smith of Winchester, Mass.; James L. Gale (Mgr.) of Concord, Mass...
Joseph B. Poindexter '57 of Matthews Hall and Stepney, Conn., was elected captain of the freshman ski team yesterday. Poindexter has led the freshman scoring in both of the team's meets. He is a graduate of the Putney School, Putney...
...role of Thomas à Becket, Hoellering attended hundreds of church services, Catholic and Anglican, searching for "a man who looked the part, inside as well as out." In London's down-at-heel East End, he found him: the Rev. St. John B. Groser, Anglican Dean of Stepney. Father Groser was horrified at first at the idea of turning actor, but he soon grew enthusiastic enough to spend seven months growing a 12th-Century-style head of hair...
Said Ted Hudson of Stepney: "My wife says we are all the same, a lot of sheep. I wouldn't say she were wrong, mind, but we've got to stick together." Ted was trying to explain why he and 15,000 other London dockworkers were on strike. They had refused to work two Canadian ships, the Beaverbrae and the Argomont, involved in a Communist-led Seamen's Union dispute in Canada. British Communists said the ships were "black" ("hot" in U.S. labor jargon), and urged the men to boycott them...
...minutes or so it was like old times in London's Stepney. Homes along Brunton's Place, Raby Street and Salmon Lane were evacuated, buses were stopped. Sick animals from the People's Dispensary had been moved to a safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad...