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...time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider the sponsor's product before signing a contract. Probable taboos: laxative ads, political blurbs, singing commercials...
Canada's election campaign, conducted with the utmost decorum and a minimum of splash and frippery, was a reflection of Canada's character. Wrote Bruce Hutchison, able novelist (The Hollow Men) and associate editor of the Winnipeg Free Press...
...climate. The cold of Canada freezes the warm blood of our whimsy and freezes the warm phrase on our lips before it can be heard. The unthinking man will say that this is all to the good, that politics here is kept on a high plane of dignity and decorum. . . . On the contrary, politics, in our cold, undiluted form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing his chauffeur and the janitor of a public hall and no one else the other night. . . . Today the Canadian political audience looks...
...athletics, he walked. For an instructive hobby, he collected stamps. The women in his life taught him sobriety and decorum. He acquired the beginning of terrific singleness of purpose which today shocks men of less orderly habits...
With the drab decorum of Mem Hall covered by sprightly trappings, and the moonlight oozing in at the open windows, '47 will have its night to howl. Accompanying the howling will be George Auld's band in its second showing at Harvard, having played in the Union...