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...heaviest fire against the government's plan came, surprisingly, from its own benches. Canadian-born Conservative Beverly Baxter, who is also theater critic for the London Evening Standard, revealed that he was "fortunate" enough to visit the U.S. every winter, and he warned that horrific tales about American TV are not exaggerated: "To sit over there through a three-or four-hour sponsored program is to come under a terrorization of mass suggestion of advertising. I mean this seriously. The American girl, for example, is supposed to be the finest of her kind in the world. She is supposed...
More than 1,000 followers with gold-embossed invitations to "The Marriage Feast of the Lamb" arrived in Philadelphia to help Father Divine, the self-proclaimed deity, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his wedding to Canadian-born Edna Rose Ritchings, whom he still proudly calls his "white, spotless virgin bride." For two days the "heavenly guests" shouted and sang as they waited a turn at the huge banquet table lighted with a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Unity Mission...
Died. Arthur Stringer, 76, tireless Canadian-born author; in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He wrote 50-odd novels bristling with danger and hairbreadth escapes; a dozen books of verse; plays; short stories; a biography of Poet Rupert Brooke; several volumes of Shakespeare criticism; the scenarios for The Perils of Pauline, the silent climax-a-week movie serial which made Heroine Pearl White rich and famous...
...group of mavericks, individualists and innovators. A few of them tried for West Point-and took Annapolis because appointments there were easier to get from Congressmen. Radford (born in Chicago in 1896) was one of these. It was a matter of considerable surprise to Radford's father-a Canadian-born civil engineer who had moved on from Chicago to Grinnell, Iowa-when young Arthur told him, one fine day, that he was headed for the Naval Academy...
Died. Harcourt Alexander Morgan, 82, Canadian-born agricultural entomologist, who became president of the University of Tennessee (1919-33), member of the Tennessee Valley Authority's original three-man board, later its chairman* (1938-41); in Belfast, Tenn...