Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like millions of his fellow Canadians. William Lyon Mackenzie King spent the first days of last week waiting to learn whether he would win or lose in his own constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When the soldier votes were finally counted,* the Prime Minister had been beaten by socialist CCFer E. L. Bowerman. What made the dose doubly hard for King to take: his defeat was by a piddling 129 votes (out of 19,341 votes cast); Bowerman was running for public office for the first time...
...card-playing Papa Gershwin, Morris Carnovsky blends humility, humor and awesome respect for his gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
Doctor of Science; Albert B. Hastings, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard: "A professor of bio-chemistry wide in his interests, catalytic in his effects; one of the Harvard commuters to Washington where he guides wartime medical research...
Prime Minister King was not at all sure at week's end of his own personal election. In the constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was still leading CCFer Edward LeRoy Bowerman. But his margin had been sliced to 200-odd votes, and the soldier vote had not yet been announced...
...Prime Minister achieved a success even in the heart of Saskatchewan. Against strong CCF opposition, he won his own personal election in the remote riding of Prince Albert...