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BRITISH Columbia, land of promise, is celebrating a birthday this year. It is a vigorous, bustling 100. In observance of the occasion, TIME sent Calgary Bureau Chief Ed Ogle and Toronto Photographer George Hunter ranging across the province by airplane, helicopter, train, bus, car, steamship, fishing boat and afoot to get a color picture spread and a colorful story. For their special report, including six pages in color, see THE HEMISPHERE, CANADA: British Columbia at 100. Appropriately, this week marks an anniversary for TIME: the 15th year of our Canadian edition, which goes to 200,000 Canadian families. Observing this...
...athletes in one festival after another. To Queen Elizabeth, the citizens of the province proudly dispatched a 100-ft. totem pole, and the royal family reciprocated by sending Princess Margaret to B.C. to grace the celebrations with her charm. All of this is part of Canada's biggest birthday party: British Columbia is 100 years old, celebrating the day in 1858 when Queen Victoria, who had scarcely heard of the place, designated the land a crown colony and sent it down the road to union with Canada...
...edition copy of The Torrents of Spring to Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, the obstetrician who twice officiated as Hemingway became a Papa. In one of two copies of The Sun Also Rises (1926), Hemingway noted for Dr. Guffey that "the first draft of this book was commenced on my birthday-July 21 in Madrid and it was finished September 6 of the same year-in Paris," and, in the other, that the novel is a "little treatise on promiscuity including a Few Jokes and much valuable travel information." Last week Bibliophile Guffey's library was up for auction...
...first Manhattan season, and Tenor Campanini's observation has been echoed by many a singer since. The Met has nevertheless attracted more first-rate stars than any other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase for New York society (the impresario of the older, posher Academy of Music referred...
...college survived the swamp; and last week, as Oberlin began full-dress celebration of its 125th birthday, visiting speakers had no trouble finding triumphs to praise in their complimentary preambles. In 1835 the college became one of the first in the U.S. to adopt a policy of admitting Negroes, and in 1841 became the first coeducational college to grant bachelors' degrees to women; its football team beat Ohio State as recently as 1921. An impressive number of educational observers call Oberlin the best coeducational college in the country, and there is much to support its right to top rank...