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...Liberals had no idea it would be so easy. They were running under an untried leader, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who took over when the veteran Mackenzie King retired last year. The opposition Tory party had received vigorous new leadership from George Drew. Drew's strength in Ontario, where he had been three-time premier, and his alliance with Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis threatened the Liberals' hold on the two biggest provinces...
...heat wave caught Canadian politicians in the final round of the general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...
...Liberals had any fears that Drew's campaigning would have a similar effect on them, they failed to show it. The only thrust that seemed to worry them was the argument being used against St. Laurent in his home province of Quebec. Tory campaigners charged that St. Laurent was centralizing power in Ottawa, and thus undermining the autonomy of the predominantly French and Roman Catholic province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant...
Most hard-boiled boxing fans thought I.B.C. deserved to lose a lot more than that for allowing the likes of La Motta to have a shot at the title. As recently as February, roundheeled Jake had been soundly thrashed in Montreal by a Frenchman named Laurent Dauthuille. A cloud of suspicion still hung over La Motta's fight with Philadelphia's Billy Fox two years ago, which the referee stopped in the fourth because of Jake's feeble performance. About all last week's fight proved was that Cerdan could not whip La Motta with...
Over the years we have learned a good deal about our Canadian readers. They include all of Canada's 20 cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Skater Barbara Ann Scott, and businessmen like Edward P. Taylor, president of Argus Corp., etc. A majority of them are businessmen, of whom 75% are executives. More than 75% of all our readers in Canada live in cities...