Word: frontenac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ronald P. Noonan of 93 Temple Rd., Somerville; Somerville High. Michael Och of 109 Lawrence Ave., Roxbury; Boston Public Latin. Gilbert W. O'Neil of 34 Beacon St., Gloucester; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mark N. Ozer of 20 Frontenac St., Dorchester; Boston Public Latin. Eugene J. Prakapas of 95 Andover St., Lowell; Keith Academy, Lowell. Martin Prochnik of 243 Harvard Ave., Allston; Boston Public Latin...
...scene was the ballroom of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the province without whose support no party can expect to win in Canada. The occasion: a dinner honoring External Affairs Minister (and Justice Minister) Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats...
...gilded ballroom of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac, where delegates were served with black caviar from Lake Winnipeg and salmon from the Gaspe, the new United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization came alive. Its job: to do something about hunger in the postwar world...
Michael Fulker worked in Quebec's Chateau Frontenac kitchen, grew to manhood among the shanties of Ontario's towns. Then in 1925 he and Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when...
...Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no trouble. Then, as they waited for a table in the hotel's main dining room, a headwaiter told them: "We cannot serve...