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...government. Premier Tommy Douglas' twelve-man Cabinet was long on party loyalty and enthusiasm, naturally short on administrative experience. The Cabinet's strongest point: it was thoroughly typical of the rural, grain-growing people who had put the C.C.F. in provincial power. Among the members were one clergyman (Douglas), five farmers, three schoolteachers, one expert on farm cooperatives, a railway man, a lawyer. Three of Douglas' principal advisers...
Died. Harold Bell Wright, 72, master of the simple, sentimental, best-selling novel; in La Jolla, Calif. Farm hand, hobo, artist, house painter, lastly preacher, Wright began his writing career in 1899 after a rival clergyman convinced him that his sermons should be published, shortly turned his talents to sugaring the moralistic pill with mystery, intrigue, romance. For 21 novels (15 movies), his manly men and womanly women fought cleanly, loved truly against a backdrop of raptly described scenic grandeur. The two most famed novels: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), 1,250,000 copies; The Winning of Barbara Worth...
...passenger list includes: a cynical journalist (John Garfield), a high-society snob (Isobel Elsom), her humble husband (Gilbert Emery), a golddigger (Faye Emerson), a country clergyman (Dennis King), a merchant mariner (George Tobias), an industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond...
Early in the game, the brothers' religious interest paid off in a big way. A clergyman friend, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, brought them a novel he had written called Westward Ho! "The right article and no mistake!" cried Alexander. He was dead right. Two years later the brothers hit the jackpot again with Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. Soon they added Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold to their list, gained wide prestige with Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics and The Cambridge Shakespeare...
Probably the most versatile, and certainly the most eccentric, of all Macmillan authors was mathematician, clergyman and humorist Charles Lutwidge Dodson, who wrote under the name of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lawn Tennis Tournaments: The True Method of Assigning Prizes, with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method; An Elementary Treatise on Determinants and Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry, For the Use of Beginners...