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...Thomson," reported London's Sunday Express stiffly, had been to Moscow and had talked to the Soviet Premier. That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...
Best Procurable. Chartered in 1670 by Charles II, the Bay started out bartering with Indians and Eskimos for beaver pelts, which were all the rage for men's hats at the time-and as a matter of royal convenience the company was put in charge of running Canada. After it sold off most of its vast landholdings to the fledgling government of Canada 93 years ago, the company went steadily downhill until arrogant, able Philip Alfred Chester took over as general manager in 1931. By the time he retired in 1959, Chester had converted the Bay from a mere...
...hard times on the Beaver Dam Road...
Proffitt lives near Beaver Dam Road in Watauga County, North Carolina. His voice is flat, coarse, aloof and unsentimental. Close your eyes and you can smell the corn mash in the still and see the heat waves over the road. Proffitt makes his own fretless banjos, cutting down hardwoods and killing groundhogs to get his materials. Years ago, he sang a song called Tom Dula for a visiting folk scholar. It was later recorded by the Kingston Trio as Tom Dooley. If any one event touched off the present folk boom in popular music, that was it. The Kingstons have...
Hard times on the Beaver Dam Road...