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Another Tommy Corcoran (Thomas Louis Joseph Corcoran) is assistant counsel and adviser to Governor Herbert Henry Lehman of New York. Thomas L. J. is a lawyer (taught in Fordham University Law School from 1934 until last year), and a braintruster in his own right...
After this function the King and Queen retired to the Citadel apartment surrendered to them by Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, who is benched while the King is in Canada. There the King changed from his Admiral's rig to cutaway and silk topper (the Queen not bothering to change) for the first of a long & indigestible series of official luncheons and dinners. This one, at the Château Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste...
...Royal train was met by Lord Tweedsmuir and his Lady, an escort of Princess Louise Dragoons in scarlet tunics and brass hats, and a landau with two postillions and two footmen-something dug out and refurbished from the Governor General's livery stable. A London-like overcast cloaked the scene, and from the Houses of Parliament sounded a bell that looked and rang like...
...only Canadians who are perhaps more famous than themselves-the Dionne Quintuplets. What happened history will enjoy longer than any other episode of this trip. With Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Oliva Dionne and wife and seven of the eight other Dionnes, the Quintuplets were bustled into the Lieutenant Governor's room of the Parliament Building. All five wore puffy, white organdie court frocks and poke bonnets, and each wore her favorite flower in her hair. Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through Toronto in a "voiture," the four-year-olds* faced royalty...
...wrote of the Royal Banquet at Quebec: " 'Neath the turreted roof of a Norman castle, where once the Canada of long ago had its seat of Government, the King and Queen had dined [from the breasts of 2,000 snowbirds]. . . . The wine glasses were filled and Lieutenant-Governor Patenaude stood to propose the age-old toast, heard nightly across one-fourth the globe: 'Gentlemen, the King.' . . . From some far corner of that spacious ballroom a strong male voice sounded, rich and true...