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Canada, most prosperous nation in the world after the U.S., closed one of its brawniest years in a brawny decade. "Canadians in 1959," reported President A. C. Ashforth of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, "produced more, imported more, exported more, spent more, and saved more than in any previous year...
...million Canadians the gains were apparent: annual per-capita income during the decade soared from $940 to $1,500, and the work week shrank from 40 to 37.9 hours. In recognition of the new prosperity, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics will soon scrap the list of 300 commodities on which it bases the monthly cost-of-living index. Explained a D.B.S. official: "There is a whole new way of life to keep track...
...forced to withdraw his puffins and to have British stamps on Lundy mail along with his own. But the puffins remain profitable tourist items, and neither Martin Harman nor his son Albion, the present lord, ever officially conceded that the island is anything less than a "self-governing dominion...
...eminence, one complaint might be made against the Vienna Philharmonic: it plays too little modern music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky: "Our dominion, with our sound, is Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and the classics; at this we are good. Perhaps American orchestras can play some of the newer music better...
...review of the book Edison, by Matthew Josephson, in your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent...