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Among the 275 guests were Canadian-born Mary Pickford, Walter Pidgeon, Alexander Knox, Jack Carson; British-born Greer Garson, Gary Grant, Ronald Colman; such friendly neighbors as Margaret O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Jimmy Cagney...
...ease their burning necks, ten members of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
Thursdays Off. Canadian-born President Harold Taylor studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, intending to write novels when he got through. At his graduation in 1935 he was astonished to find himself awarded a scholarship "as the best all-round man" in the class. He stayed on for an M.A., took his Ph.D. at London University. Then he got a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin, took out U.S. citizenship papers, and with a young English wife settled down in a remodeled barn for what he thought was a lifetime of philosophy and writing...
...conservative jury of museum directors gave $1,000 top honors to long-faced, Canadian-born Philip Guston, now an art instructor at St. Louis' Washington University. His Sentimental Moment is a sentimental study of a plump-armed, dreamy girl for which he used no model. "I simply had it in my mind and transferred it to canvas." Guston, who is 33, was a factory worker and a truck driver until WPA came along and gave him a full-time chance to work at art. Of his Sentimental Moment, the New York Times's ponderously judicious Edward Alden Jewell...
...center of the verbal whirlwind, Canada's second-class citizens (most of the Japs, like the Canadian Chinese and Hindus in British Columbia, cannot vote) watched in bewilderment man's inhumanity to man. Said Tokyo Morikawa, 30, Canadian-born: "The law regards you as a Canadian but you are treated as an alien...