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...mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...
After work, St. Laurent spends the evening on state papers, listening to the radio, or reading (usually newspapers and magazines). Sometimes he works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside...
...When St. Laurent first came to Ottawa, he said with a trace of pride: "I know nothing of politics or politicians." The boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
Louis was a student at St. Charles-Borromee Seminary, a bilingual (French-English) college in Sherbrooke. Because seminary discipline kept him indoors on election night, St. Laurent plotted with an outsider to bring election returns from the local newspaper office and tie them to a string dropped from his dormitory window...
...political dimout in St. Laurent's life began four years later when Louis' French Canadian father, Moïse, ran for the Quebec legislature as a Liberal and was beaten. Sorely disappointed, Moïse St. Laurent advised Louis to stay out of politics...