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...last parliamentary appearance as Canada's Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King had put on a black suit, a crisp white shirt, a grey tie with pearl stickpin. Hardly anyone noticed him as he slipped into his chair in the green House of Commons chamber. Only 47 of the 245 members were at their desks. The rest had already left for their summer holidays...
...food across Canada competes for dullness with U.S. blueplates and U.S. airline meals. But off the main line, the diligent traveler can find palate-tempters. In little French Canadian villages there is the traditional thick soupe aux pois to which the habitants attribute their virility. For dessert there are crisp little grand-pères (doughballs cooked in a pot of maple syrup). In the Maritimes, there are lobsters and clam chowder, Annapolis Valley baked apple dumplings, and a sturdy pudding called blueberry grunt. On the prairies the great delicacy is smoked Winnipeg goldeye (a Canadian lake fish) done...
Later that night, cool and resplendent in a crisp straw hat and double-breasted suit, big, grey Arthur Vandenberg ambled contentedly over to the Bellevue-Stratford to congratulate Tom Dewey...
...this week. In retaliation against the Western powers' new German currency (TIME, June 28), Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky proclaimed that the Russians alone had the right to determine what currency should be used in Berlin, issued "new" money of his own by pasting stickers on old reichsmarks. (Berliners preferred crisp U.S.-printed bills, called the Russian currency "Tapetenmark"-wallpaper money...
Both were wrong, though the Western powers hoped that it was "ammo" of a sort. The cases contained crisp new blue-backed currency notes (printed in the U.S.) which the Western powers started issuing last week in place of the billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...