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...cile begins as the story of a man (Narrator Constant) whose own wife has taken a lover, and who decides to fall in love himself, if he can. He meets Cécile at her home in Brunswick, and the same night, though not in love with her, writes a brilliant note saying he is. Cécile scorns him, and Constant is enraptured; he concludes that he feels "the most violent passion...
...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's Trans-Lux screen flashed word that Porcupine...
Died. Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 65, son-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, father of Queen Frederika of Greece and head of the House of Hanover; of a liver ailment; at Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Germany...
Died. Dr. Edgar Rudolph Randolph Parker, 80, U.S. chain-store dentist, whose ballyhooing techniques and easy professional ethics boomed his practice but outraged his colleagues; in San Francisco. Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...
Last week, long since a living legend, Willie racked up his tournament cue for good. His "retirement" from competition will be spent in playing exhibitions for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the billiard and bowling equipment manufacturer that has sponsored Willie for 45 years. Although tournament players can now breathe more easily, Willie will doubtless go on dominating exhibition play. The old rocking chair that will finally get him away from the billiard table has probably not yet been built...