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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: After a year as a soldier in World War I, he built up a reputation as a defender of the underdog. Changed his Liberal sympathies in 1925, ran first of four unsuccessful races as a Tory, losing in one to famed Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Elected in 1940, has since 1945 been the only Tory M.P. from the Liberal and socialist stronghold of Saskatchewan. Won leadership of the Conservatives in December 1956, succeeded ailing, standoffish George Drew...
More active than ever at 75,-Composer Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky works in intermittent bursts of energy in a soundproofed studio built into his Hollywood house. A neat and meticulous man, Stravinsky until recently liked to stand on his head and do morning calisthenics to keep in trim. With the aid of his second wife Vera, he watches his health with hypochondriacal care. After a glass of French wine he is likely to call, "Quick, Verochka, the proteins." His wife responds by bringing him crackers and cheese. Although he is deeply religious, Stravinsky seldom goes to the Russian Orthodox Church, once...
...Angeles area PRESBYTERIANS are operating two retreat houses. "Sky Forest" is a large redwood lodge in the San Bernardino Mountains, built for his private use by the late oilman and philanthropist Herbert C. Wylie and donated to the Presbyterians. The lodge sleeps 32 people and is used 46 times a year for retreats from Friday evening through Sunday noon which emphasize "reflection periods" and Bible study. "Mar Casa" is a white-shingled, two-story building on Balboa Island, built for the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in World War I for Christian education work, but now used for retreats...
...contact with 30 stations in the U.S. and Canada who are interested in our format." WPAT gives them advice, and for small fees will help in setting up similar musical oases in the yakety-yak radio desert. Such clients range from Miami's WSKP to a station being built in Manila...
Lures of all sorts have been wondrously perfected. There are plugs with small propellers, plugs with built-in batteries and small flashlight eyes, plugs with odorous oils supposedly tantalizing to fish, plugs with a hole for Seltzer tablets that leave a trail of attractive bubbles along the bottom. "At one time," said Instructor Henry Lyman, publisher of Salt Water Sportsman, "someone discovered that bluefish would strike at the shankbone of an alley cat. For years when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish...