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...March 9 Minton, Balch & Company brought out THE YELLOW BRIAR, by Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
When he opened up as a tobacconist on Duke Street a few years later, his tobacco was all right but his pipes were not. So he sent to the Italian Alps for briar roots and began to make his own. Young British officers took them to war by the thousands. Before long the Dunhill pipe with its round white spot on the stem was thoroughly internationalized. On this amazing bit of word-of-mouth advertising Alfred Dunhill began to build a world-wide pipe business. Today there are Dunhill agencies in 57 lands from Trinidad to Zanzibar. There...
With her husband Blair Banister, an insurance man, she lives in an apartment on Dupont Circle. Her daughter, Margaret. 38, works at Sweet Briar College of which the new U. S. Assistant Treasurer's sister, Dr. Meta Glass, is president...
...played golf in the 80's. He keeps up his membership in London's Middlesex Golf Club. Last week he retired to his summer home at Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always English ballads. A son, Arthur Gibb, attends Cambridge. A daughter. Dorothy Frances, is at Skidmore College...
Shouted back a Spanish workman, "You are a good man!" Impulsively the Premier reached into his coat pocket, extracted a homely briar of the type which all France calls a "Herriot pipe," tossed it to the workman...