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...discovered Publisher Smyth's colleague, Canadian-born Walker Grey Matheson, 40, last week in Nelson Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs. He was writing short-wave broadcasts about the Far East for Latin America. Agent Matheson, who had gone to school in Hawaii, Peking, Shanghai, Rangoon, Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack...
Died. Jacob Schurman, 88, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1925-30), longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Canadian-born he joined the Cornell faculty at the age of 32 as head of the department of philosophy, became president at 38. On leaves, he headed McKinley's first U.S. Philippine Commission in 1899, was Taft's Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912. He resigned from Cornell in 1920, was appointed Harding's Minister to China in 1921. As Coolidge's Ambassador to Germany he plumped hard for its rehabilitation...
...Canadian-born, he was sent to Alaska as a bishop in 1895, the year before the Klondike strike, learned to live in the arctic wilderness, travel behind a dog team, mushed 2,000 miles a year carrying out his duties. When he was 75 he abandoned the dog team for faster means of transportation. Four times he refused bishoprics in the U.S. His own wild diocese covered nearly 600,000 miles...
...primer-like but not too cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...
Anyone who thinks his country might be invaded-which means anyone now alive-would do well to read "Yank" Levy's Guerrilla Warfare-for instructions on how to harass invaders. Author Levy, 44, a Canadian-born soldier of fortune, now instructor of British Home Guards, has compiled a civilian's manual of mayhem and informal murder. His book is a brief, businesslike discussion of contemporary strategy, tactics and tricks for people caught in an invasion, with dozens of helpful hints on hamstringing, backstabbing, sniping and other dust-biting dodges. Author Levy urges householders to organize right away, study...