Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Choice. St. Laurent moved into the cabinet like a veteran, applied his quick, logical and incisive lawyer's mind to every problem that came his way. As early as 1943, Mackenzie King told intimates that St. Laurent was the best choice to succeed him as head of the government. When King, after 21 years as Prime Minister, stepped down last November, St. Laurent moved into his office in the East Block of the Parliament Buildings...
...Spark. His courtship was in keeping with his background. One night at a card party he met bright-eyed young Jeanne Renault. They were partners at charlemagne (a four-handed game played with 34 cards), and soon Jeanne told her friends that the shy young lawyer was mon idéal. Her friends warned her that it would not be easy to catch St. Laurent, a studious chap who spent most of his evenings with his law books. But when Louis started corresponding a short time later, everyone agreed: "C'est l'étincelle [It's the spark...
...Laurents spent their summers at He d'Orléans, near Quebec. It was there that Lawyer St. Laurent, master of the house and the law, failed to master the automobile. Time & again he smacked the family car into the gateposts. At the wheel, he sat up so ramrod-straight that the children often giggled. Thereupon he would stop the car and refuse to go on until the laughing stopped. He still does not drive a car; when he wants to ride in Ottawa, he calls a taxi...
...inevitable comparisons between St. Laurent and King run to their political views and whether ex-Corporation Lawyer St. Laurent will go along with King's Liberal Party policy, which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he may not. He once said publicly that "no government of which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said...
Once More, My Darling (Neptune Productions; Universal-International), produced by Joan Harrison and directed by Robert Montgomery-the team which made Ride the Pink Horse-is a fluffy comedy in which the fluff often gets in the way of the fun. As a young lawyer turned actor turned investigator for the U.S. Army, Montgomery is assigned the job of solving the disappearance of some famous jewels. To get at the jewels, he has to pretend to marry a man-eating debutante (Ann Blyth) who, without any pretense at all, is determined to marry...