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...young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...
...union card, income-tax returns and his waterfront pass, but refused to have his name legally changed, on the ground that he had not existed before his rebirth. But since longshoremen were badly needed during the war years. True Knowledge went on working despite the cries of pay clerks, wharf guards and union officials...
...aside. An irresistible exception was the story of two teen-aged daughters of a Cape Town railroad laborer, who had simultaneously turned to boys. The younger promptly decided to leave a girls' seminary and join the army. But as the Vanguard finally sidled up to her Cape Town wharf, 1,200 other less protean schoolgirls, dressed in their best white, lined up to form the word "Welcome" on the side of Signal Hill. Some 200,000 more South Africans stood in the sweltering sun or clung to flagpoles to roar their greetings, many fainting with the heat. Britain...
...many Frenchwomen, has turned red as she has approached middle age. She took off with a harrowing recitation of Kipling's My Son, then did three songs. The best: Mon Coco, Mon Coquin du Coin du Quai (My Sweetie, My Little Rascal from the Corner of the Wharf...
...ship will leave from India Wharf, 310, Atlantic Avenue, at 8 o'clock. Tickets are being sold at Phillips Brooks House...