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Smash Hit. In Bathurst, Australia, when the touring Vienna Choir Boys struck a high soprano note while singing in the Civic Theater, the ceiling cracked, causing mortar and bricks to -crash on the stage...
...market was touched off by two unrelated developments, new uranium finds in the Beaverlodge Lake area of northern Saskatchewan, and the reported base-metal discovery near Bathurst, N.B. The uranium, located on property of Gunnar Gold Mines Ltd., sent Gunnar Gold shooting from a 1952 low of 23? a share to more than $4. But the New Brunswick issues and the chance they offered speculators to strike it rich caused an even greater flurry of excitement. Typical of the rampaging success of these issues was Porcupine Peninsular, a little-known company with holdings in northern Ontario. When the exchange...
...Sydney, Australia, New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Ernest D. Roper granted an injunction to 23 outraged parishioners of the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Rt. Rev. Arnold Lomas Wylde, restraining the bishop from introducing "Romish" practices into his diocese. Departing from the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Wylde was accused of introducing into the Communion service such customs as ringing the Sanctus bell and making the sign of the cross. Commented Justice Roper: "It is quite deplorable that members of a Christian community have been unable to settle differences without recourse to litigation...
...magnetic pole of the geography books, the U.S.A.F. added, had moved from Canada's bleak Somerset Island, where it had last been reported (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), over 100 miles to Prince of Wales Island. The two newcomers, both "local poles," turned up on Bathurst Island and Boothia Peninsula; and the whole magnetic field, the U.S.A.F. said, is contained in one big ellipse...
...chesty body of a four-engined Lancastrian (converted Lancaster bomber) rumbled up Buenos Aires' Morón airport, rose easily over the Plata estuary, and shrank into the east. A good turnout of proud British clapped politely. Regular biweekly service from Argentina to London (via Montevideo, Rio, Natal, Bathurst, Lisbon), by the soon-to-be-nationalized British South American Airways (B.S.A.A.), had begun...