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...room main house is usually filled with guests (samples: Lord & Lady Halifax, Standard Oil's Eugene Holman, Nelson Rockefeller, Mrs. Will Rogers) or with business visitors. A steady stream of agronomists, geneticists, and breeders from all over the world come to see at first hand (and are fed and boarded with traditional Texan hospitality) the work of Master Cattleman and Breeder Kleberg...
...fifth of the population of Halifax war doubled up or living in attics or basements. All last week the Dominion awaited a wondrous new housing plan which Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe was to unveil. When he spoke, in Vancouver, the best he could do was to promise 6,000 more homes-a year from...
Class of 42. At Mahone Bay, 58 miles southwest of Halifax, Henry Gerald Stairs had just finished putting the first of his new class of schooners through her trial paces. The Acadia 42 (socalled because of her 42-ft. overall length), designed by Stairs and built wholly of native white oak, pine and spruce, worked up to eight knots in a brisk breeze. Said Stairs:"She's fast, staunch, sound-a darned good sea boat. I'd take her around the world tomorrow." Instead, he loaded her on a flatcar last week for delivery to a California buyer...
...civil engineer and marine architect, 43-year-old Gerry Stairs settled in Mahone Bay because he could find no living quarters in Halifax after discharge from the Navy. With little original capital and no office staff except his wife (who is still his secretary), Stairs has worked up his business to $250,000 a year. Eight Acadia 425 have been ordered. Complete with galley, auxiliary engine and berths for four to six, the boat sells for about $8,700. Canadians estimate that the same ship would cost $20,000 if built...
...stayed to become an authority on criminal law, Principal of B.N.C. (Brasenose College) and one of Oxford's better hosts. This week, at 63, he became Vice Chancellor, the nearest Oxford equivalent to a U.S. university president (the Chancellorship of Oxford, at present held by the Earl of Halifax, is strictly honorary...