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Included in the Ottawa collection are two of Davies' earliest sketches done in 1758, one depicting the burning of Grymross, Nova Scotia, by British troops and another a detailed drawing of the new British fortifications with key points carefully labeled: "A. Fort Frederick. B. Huts built by the Rangers. C. Passage up the River. Davies' later views of Montreal, Quebec and Halifax are valued as the first to be recorded in Canadian history...
Like.Marjorie, Wouk was born in The Bronx, the son of Abraham Isaac and Esther Levine Wouk. Both parents came from Minsk, Russia. Papa Wouk started washing clothes in a basement, rose to be president of one of New York's largest power laundries. One of Herman's earliest memories is playing hide and seek among the machines. The Wouk family was "restless, like most New Yorkers," and while Herman was still a child, made four moves, from one canyonlike apartment house to another, all within what Wouk calls "that romantic, and much overcriticized borough," The Bronx...
...earliest conference dinners, Faure had warned Khrushchev that France could not be split off from the Atlantic alliance. But he made no secret of his ambition to take home some achievement to match Mendès-France's, with whom he anticipates a political battle next year. He was impatient with Quai d'Orsay experts. "I use modern formulas that do not correspond to diplomatic traditions," he said expansively. He added privately: "What do my people in the Jura [his home district] know about NATO? But if I tell them that we can build irrigation canals for their...
...Wimbledon's courts were strewn with upsets in the 69th All-England tennis championships. Earliest high-seeded casualties: U.S. Davis Cup Player Vic Seixas, blasted out in the second round by U.S. Hard Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders...
...addition, "tattling" has bad moral connotations for Americans who have learned from earliest school days how "wicked" Benedict Arnold and his ilk are. The national ethic, which has no place for informing, they maintain, should take precedence over the whim of a committee...