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Hypomania. In the dock at Old Bailey last week. Captain Peter Baker, M.P., war hero, audacious financier and poet, heard himself described by a psychiatrist as suffering from "hypomania," a ?5 word for big-shot complex. He pleaded guilty to six of seven charges against him, then, squinting through his horn-rimmed glasses, stood at soldierly attention as he was sentenced to seven years in prison...
...setting the nutritional minimums for Britain's wartime rations; the failure to find his killer was an international humiliation for the French police. After long and confused police investigations, Gaston Dominici was carted off to prison. Last week the mahogany-faced old peasant, now 77, stood in the dock in a courtroom at Digne to answer the charge of murder...
...Navy's first atomic submarine, the $55 million Nautilus, ran into trouble .without leaving the dock. Last month a steam pipe outside the nuclear reactor burst during dockside trials. Last week the Navy learned why. The General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, which built the Nautilus, had mixed together seamless and welded pipes in its warehouses-and in the Nautilus. Weak welded pipes burst under pressure which would have been withstood by the specified seamless piping. Moreover, it turned out that piping was mixed up too in Electric Boat's second atomic submarine, the Sea Wolf, now abuilding...
...From the dock of his waterfront restaurant in Freeport, L.I., Bandleader and Boat Racer Guy Lombardo climbed into a small boat with two outboard motors on the stern. As he started up one motor and raced about the water, there was the ear-splitting racket that has come to be associated with eggbeater boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves...
Going Absolutely Gorky. In 1926, Jed rushed straight from the dock to the organization meeting of a new proletarian stage enterprise, reminiscent of the famous Group Theater. "Human society is suffering and drying up for lack of a creed," he soon found himself saying. "The theater will take the place of the church . . . That's what I learned working with the Russians last summer. We've got to go further than they went. Abolish the proscenium arch...