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Warm afternoon sunshine slanted through the windows of Kingston's 19th Century stone House of Representatives building. In the tiny, paneled chamber, the Opposition representative from East Westmoreland was attacking the land-development policy of His Majesty's Executive Council. In the course of his speech, he referred to Jamaica's Minister of Communications as "good to twist" (Jamaican for corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: High Wind in Jamaica | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...university's centenary. They put on a pageant, handed out honorary degrees to ten dignitaries, learned that Pope Pius XII had conferred an apostolic benediction on students and staff. They listened to tributes from visitors, heard Dr. Robert Wallace, principal of Queen's University in Kingston, say: "There are clearly two different philosophies of education in Canada . . . They rest partly in religious exclusiveness-on both sides-partly on language barriers, and partly on suspicions coming down to us across the years ... It should be possible to do better than we have yet done, for we have worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Father Raspberry's School | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Wilkes-Barre: John M. Moore '25, 395 Wyoming Avenue, Kingston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club Head Asks '48 To Join Locals | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

...those convicted on Gouzenko's evidence, eight are behind bars: ex-M.P. Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system. In Britain, Scientist Dr. Allan Nunn May is in prison (ten years), but British officials will not say where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: 32 Months After | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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