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Altogether 150 famed and near-famed serious students of large human affairs completed last week at the Canadian Pacific's magnificent hotel at Banff, Alberta, a fortnight's "roundtable" study of the Pacific-the fifth biennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
...Commissioners arrived in Ottawa with their ladies, met the three Canadians appointed as their colleagues: Sir William Thomas White, vice president of Canadian Bank of Commerce, Canada's Wartime Finance Minister; Beaudry Leman, general manager of Banque Canadienne Nationale; and Premier John Edward Brownlee of Alberta (named to give Western Canada a voice). After a first meeting in Ottawa the Commission shuttled straight to the Pacific Coast, began a series of hearings which will bring it back city by city from Vancouver to Halifax...
...said he would get there from Edmonton, Alberta, 2,000 mi. away, "about midnight," but the field manager had not yet snapped on the field floodlights when Harold Gatty, who flew the world with Post two years ago, heard a faint drone from the Northwest. Another minute and Post's manager, standing near pretty little Mrs. Post in her car. shouted: "It has no lights! It must be Wiley!" and the hazy white form of a ship roared about the field, turning to land...
Very rich, very pious are the Harper Sibleys of Rochester, N. Y. Son of Hiram W. who helped found Western Union Telegraph Co. and was its first president, Harper Sibley owns ranches in Alberta and California, Sibley Farms in Illinois. He is in banking, lumber and coal, gives time to civic enterprises like the Community Chest and the Genesee Hospital. A lean, bronzed outdoor man, able tennist at 48, Harper Sibley is a member of the potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr...
Died, R. E. A. C. Paley,* 25, called by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was researching, "the greatest mathematician in England and one of the greatest in the world"; when an avalanche started by his skis, swept him down Fossil Mountain near Banff, Alberta...