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...Headquarters Needed. Louis St. Laurent was a topnotch Quebec lawyer and political novice when he was picked by Mr. King in 1941 for the Justice Ministry. His dignity, sincerity and all-round ability soon won him a national reputation as a statesman...
...grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor Brown, who returned to his favorite pursuits of drama critic and essayist. In Brown's six-year term, the Observer had gone nonpartisan, and become a better all-round paper (except to Tories) than Lord Kemsley's rival Sunday Times...
...husky 6 ft. 2 in. Bob Mathias, in two days' grueling competition, outran, outthrew, and outjumped 34 competitors, to win the Olympic Games decathlon. In victory, at an age when most youngsters are still gangling and ill-coordinated, he had proved his right to be classed with such all-round athletes as Carlisle's Jim Thorpe and West Point's Glenn Davis...
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, all-round woman athlete of athletes, took on a job-without-pay: as "recreational consultant" to Denver's juvenile court she will teach waifs, strays and "bad boys" how to have fun outdoors...
...Burke, Bill Graham, and Bob Tolf are the team's best medley relay combination, Brooks said, praising Burke as an all-round free styler as well. Divers Gordon Weirs and Hugh Shepley were also lauded. 200-yard free styler Poto Bierre and backstroker Fred Glynn, both without previous competitive experience, are also slated to start...