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...CANADIANS by Andrew H. Malcolm Times Books; 385 pages...
...Andrew Malcolm, an American son of Canadian immigrants, remembers with warmth his first visits to his parents' homeland. Canada in the 1940s and '50s, he says, was a quiet and rustic place, with "swarthy Indians living just down the dusty, curbless road, chickens clucking by an asparagus field, pictures of funny little crowns on mailboxes, stamps and road signs." Even then, he recalls, Canada was "very familiar, very friendly and very nice, but different...
...John B. Moses and Wilbur Cross relate in the book Presidential Courage (W.W. Norton Co., 1980), many Presidents suffered, usually in silence and secrecy, from chronic and painful diseases. George Washington had a giant benign tumor in his leg and was the victim of rheumatism and repeated pneumonia. Andrew Jackson, famous for his stamina and courage, was described in a contemporary article in the Boston Medical School Journal as "a tottering scarecrow in deadly agony," a man in whom "the malaria, the dysentery, the osteomyelitis and the bronchiectasis were going on, and on, and on." But Jackson continued to lead...
From Hobey Baker finalist Dov Grumet-Morris in goal to explosive defenseman Dylan Reese on the blueline to the skilled and crafty Andrew Lederman on the attack, this season’s Crimson was teeming with Jews...
...when consecutive bunts in the seventh—this time by backup catcher Andrew Casey and Vance, again—resulted in errors, the Crimson put on the pressure. Brown reached on a shortstop miss-throw and second baseman Taylor Meehan reached on Prince’s second error...