Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Through the beginning careers of five young people, Gunther gives a Canadian Profile, from the Maritimes west...
...spectacular individual success stories are not about economic giants but about small firms and energetic men, including European immigrants (more than 20% of the 1,900,000 postwar "new Canadians" have settled in the horseshoe). When he left Italy nine years ago, Carpenter Alfonso Frisina had little money and less English, but he barged right into the contracting business; this year Frisina will put up Hamilton's first skyscraper, a 22-story, $4,000,000 office building. Toronto-born Harvey Keith, 55, quit his job as a supermarket supervisor in 1950, borrowed $5,000 to go into real estate...
...Smoke & Feel. Canadian Eskimo art went unnoticed until 1948, when Jim Houston, 38, a great-great-great-grand-nephew of Texan Sam Houston, went north to paint. Houston was fascinated by the statuettes the Eskimos had made for centuries for their own pleasure and, once made, had tossed negligently aside. Houston took samples south, where collectors snapped them up. In 1951 Houston settled in Cape Dorset as the Canadian government's civil administrator and chief patron of the local artists. Once Houston had built carving into a business that grosses $150,000 each year, he looked for another...
...preferably be named Lauritz Melchior. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, a topnotch revival of Wagner's Die Walkuere (conducted by Karl Boehm) offered the audience a dramatic tenor who ideally fulfilled the first two requirements and made the third one seem unimportant. The tenor: 33-year-old, Canadian-born Jon Vickers...
...Office reporting, lad opened up in 1937. Soon Reston, who says, "I didn't even know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy, now leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party, and France's Jean Monnet, both of whom rose along with Reston and later became good news sources. He also caught the eye of the New York Times's London Bureau Chief Ferdinand Kuhn, who hired Reston...