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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped down last week to let a younger man step up. On his 75th birthday, kindly, white-haired Leighton Goldie McCarthy resigned as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. To his post Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King promptly appointed McCarthy's assistant, Lester Bowles Pearson, O.B.E., one of the ablest men in Canada's small but expert foreign service...
...successor is no cookie-pusher. Ambassador-designate Pearson was nicknamed "Mike" by his comrades in Salonika in 1915 because, as they told the 18-year-old soldier, "Lester is no name for a fighting man. ..." He worked in the Chicago stockyards, taught history at Toronto University, was an ice hockey and football coach before he entered the foreign service. He was Secretary of Canada House in London when World War II broke out. When he left, the Manchester Guardian paid him a fulsome compliment: "one of the best-known Canadians in England...
...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
...chairman, the delegates selected a Canadian, shrewd, friendly Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, the Dominion's Minister Plenipotentiary...
...excellent jazz programs on the radio has done much to fill this void. Wednesday evenings at 7:30 o'clock, Cain's "Cain Is Able" pay the keep for half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music is apt at times to stray a little afield, but generally speaking pure improvisation predominates. Collectors are invited to come up to the station Tuesday evenings and put on a program...