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...witness stand was Ray Lawson, 71, who as Canadian consul general in New York from 1953 to 1955 was the prime mover behind Canada House. Ferreting about, the M.P.s wondered why the Canadian Club, long installed in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had decided, even before construction started, not to take space in Canada House. Lawson could not say-but he did know that the former Liberal government was "very glad" to hear of the club's decision. He added: "I can understand the reasons. The Canadian Club has some very strict racial rules...
...this mean that Jews were barred? Well, said Lawson, "they have at least one. I don't know how he got in." Pressed Montreal M.P. Leon Crestohl, obviously astonished: "Would you think that I, as a Jew and even as a member of the House of Commons, might be barred from membership?" Replied Lawson: "I would think so, yes." Said Crestohl evenly: "We have heard enough about the Canadian Club. Let's get on with our business...
...probable starting lineup today will include Charlie Devens and Frank Bachinsky at the ends, Harry Fitzgibbons and Bob Hallowell at the tackles, Doug Brown and Sam Snodgrass at the guards, and Dalton Avery at center. Tony Marlow, Tom Lawson, Chub Newell, and Rick Crocker will comprise the backfield...
AUBREY'S BRIEF LIVES (341 pp.)-Edited by Oliver Lawson Dick-University of Michigan...
More than a decade ago Historian and Publicist Oliver Lawson Dick, "electing myself" to be the "young Man," went to work sorting out the huggermugger of 66 sprawling volumes of Aubrey manuscripts. The result, now published for the first time in the U.S., is a fascinating, alphabetically ordered collection of 134 portraits. As not a single Figge-leaf hides Elizabethan ribaldry, the book is scarcely suitable for young Virgins. Samples...