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Across town in the swank La Touraine cocktail lounge, Conservative Leader Drew also worked on political fences. Flanked by two pressagents and his politicking wife Fiorenza, Drew gave a party for the parliamentary press gallery...
Svelte, brunette Fiorenza Drew is the kind of helpmeet ambitious politicians pray for. An attractive mother of two, and one of Canada's best-dressed women, she is as handy before a microphone as she is before the kitchen range. Last week when her husband, new Progressive Conservative Leader George Drew, set out to stump for himself and his party, Fiorenza, as usual, went along. They tackled Quebec first, a province where the party is weak and where a lot of selling needs to be done. Fiorenza pitched...
George Drew can't speak French, but Fiorenza can and does. At a cocktail party for the Montreal press, and later at a banquet and reception in the Windsor Hotel, she referred to George as mon homme. The things the Drew family hold dear, she told her audience in her fearless French. "are shared by countless Canadians who want to build an even greater country for their children." That sort of talk stirred the 1,700 men & women packed in the Windsor's ballroom and Peacock Alley to sing the jaunty Vive la Canadienne in her honor...
...Gorgeous George" looked his best in a grey double-breasted suit. At his side stood his handsome, smartly tailored wife Fiorenza (TIME, June 7), who said over & over: "I leave the issues to George." George took good care of the issues. His own man, Frederick G. Gardiner (another Toronto lawyer), was running the platform committee...
...good mimic, she often wows French audiences with take-offs of people who heckle husband George. She has never been heckled herself. Fiorenza's chats in English run about five minutes, those in French or Italian seven to 15. She hugs a mike like a crooner, turns it over to George with, "Now you didn't come here to listen to me. I'm going to sit down and let the men do the work...