NAME AND AIM THE SAME
The long arm of coincidence, through reports published by two newspapers printed 12,000 miles apart, prompted Mr. F. H. Dolman, of 4, Church-road, Barton, Torquay, to call at the Herald Express Office with clippings from the Herald Express and the Melbourne Herald.
The Australian paper published a report about Mr. Dolman’s great-nephew, Mr. Edwin R. Howell, a 22-year-old graduate of Melbourne University, and the electronic equipment he is developing to improve medical knowledge of the human body, especially with regard to sports training.
The clipping from a recent edition of the Herald Express reported a research programme at the University of Alberta (Canada) to develop a method of measuring body changes after physical exercise.
Director of the programme is Dr. Max Howell, a former Australian athlete.
“It struck me as a great coincidence that they should both be Australians with the same name and apparently following the same line of research,” said Mr. Dolman, a retired analytical chemist.
“But they are not related and so far as I know have never met.”
Another coincidence – both papers have the name “Herald.”
(Torbay Express and South Devon Echo, 26th January 1965)
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