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...RICHARD H. DICKSON Indianapolis...
...Magic Walking Stick finds a cane that, properly twirled by the owner, twirls him from the doldrums of home to far-off times and places. In The House of the Four Winds (which along with Castle Gay is part of a trilogy about a retired Glasgow grocer named Dickson McCunn), Buchan plunks assorted Britons smack dab in the middle of a palace revolution in Evallonia, a small, turbulent European state north by east from Ruritania...
Died. Earle Ensign Dickson, 68, longtime employee of New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson surgical supply company who, while treating his wife's finger for a kitchen knife mishap in 1920, inadvertently invented the Band-Aid, which eventually earned his firm $30 million in annual sales and Dickson a vice-presidency; after a long illness; in New Brunswick...
ROBERT B. DICKSON...
With help from British churchmen and the government, Dickson set up a middleman agency to recruit youths aged 18 to 24 for one year's service in underdeveloped countries, and he has been astonishingly successful. Though they get only subsistence pay and hard living, they stick: only two volunteers out of 165 have quit so far. In 25 countries, VSO currently has 87 public-school boys, factory apprentices, girls and university men-all working at everything from repairing bicycles in Kenya to aiding sick Eskimos in Labrador. Wrote one Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have...