Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Messages from the media have bombarded Communicator Marshall McLuhan, 56, so rapidly that he hardly has time to translate them all into books. So he plans to publish a hot medium of his own - a newsletter called McLuhan's Dewline. Says the Canadian scholar-turned-guru: "It's going to be a distant-early-warning system to give advance notice to anyone who'll listen." Planned articles: "Love Thy Label as Thyself," "The End of the Muddle Class," and "The Executive as a Dropout." Should some disciples worry that McLuhan might label himself an ordinary editor...
Perhaps the foremost collector of film trivia is Harry Purvis, a Canadian writer whose catalogue which appears irregularly in TV Guide, includes the following...
...Canadian Pattern. Four days after King's murder, Ray had hightailed across the Canadian border, and was renting a $10-a-week room from Mrs. Fela Szpakowsky on Toronto's polyglot Ossington Avenue. Just why Ray chose Canada is not entirely clear, but, almost surely, one reason was the knowledge-widely circulated among convicts in the U.S.-that it is ridiculously easy to get a Canadian passport. All that is needed is the gall to ask for one and a birth certificate-and the certificate is not strictly necessary...
...Library. On April 16, Ray paid $8 for a Canadian passport in the name of Sneyd. "He blended into the wallpaper," recalls Lillian Spencer, manager of the Kennedy Travel Bureau, who handled the simple declaration that Ray signed, affirming that he was a Canadian citizen. Next day, on Miss Spencer's say-so, Travel Agent Henry Moos notarized the form and forwarded it to Ottawa...
From an unpretentious Manhattan headquarters, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. runs a prodigious organization. The Bell System operates more than half of the world's 208 million phones, reaps more revenue ($13 billion last year) than the Canadian government, is the biggest private customer in the U.S. capital market. A.T. & T. chiefs preside over a 22-man top-management group traditionally-and aptly -known as "the cabinet...