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...throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling for his resignation; in Ottawa. Mills was canned by the CanWest Global Communications Corp., headed by the Asper family, which has donated $161,000 to Chr?tien's party in the past five years. To protest, Ottawa Citizen journalists refused bylines for five days...
...LEONARD ASPER Media Baron Two years ago, lzzy Asper, founder of the Canadian media company CanWest, passed his CEO title to his son Leonard, then 35. Now, through an acquisition binge, Leonard has increased the number of TV and radio stations CanWest owns and expanded into newspapers, making it Canada's largest media conglomerate and doubling revenues. CanWest has been acquiring media interests as far afield as Australia and Northern Ireland...
...repertory of 1,200 numbers goes from spirituals to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Backed up by the 10,000-pipe tabernacle organ, with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...
...wrote to buy arch supports, Manville, ever the butt of his own gags, explained: "I got fallen arches carrying my first bride over the thresh-old." Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime Actress Kay Williams, with her jeweled slipper): "Indecent assault and battery" while he and Georgia were fellow hospital patients, with a connecting bathroom, last December. After bursting into her room...
...Ainsworth, H. H. Ambrose, A. R. Anderson, W. L. Asper, R. W. Baker, V. G. Bentley, S. W. Bigwood, R. G. Bispham, L. A. Blane, J. E. Boyle, M. J. Bradbury, H. C. Braun, M. D. Brown, L. W. Budlong, Nathaniel Burt, R. N. Butler, J. R. Byerly, Paul Casamajor...
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