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Atop a hill in a Toronto residential area stands a stolid, stone anachronism, Casa Loma. A mixture of 17th Century Scotch baronial and 20th Century-Fox, the castle rears its turrets as a memento to one Canadian's short-lived dream of glory. Starting in 1911, financier Sir Henry Pellatt poured an estimated $3,000,000 into the old-world battlements, wine cellars, secret stairways and tunnels; into the new-world trimmings, tiled swimming pool, modern plumbing (solid gold & silver fixtures), bowling alley, shooting galleries. Before Casa Loma's 100 rooms were completely finished or furnished, Sir Henry...
Attempts to make it a swanky hotel, with imported bands, failed (Glen Gray's Casa Loma orchestra was named after the castle). Eventually, the Kiwanis Club rented it on a share-the-profit plan, used the big ballroom for dances and receptions. This, plus 75,000 tourists a year, netted the council an annual...
...School Tie. In Loma Linda, Calif., Dr. Edwin Lee remembered a Japanese classmate back in his college days when he finally got his missing anatomy textbook back - from Attu...
...ranking officers in the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics ("Gentlemen, we have work to do"), Army, Navy and Congress leaders in Speaker Sam Rayburn's office, "a great throng . . . looking west across San Diego harbor, and out beyond Point Loma to the Pacific...
...recruiting station said, "I want to beat them Japs with my own bare hands." At the docks in San Diego, as the afternoon wore on, a crowd slowly grew. There were a few people, then more, then a throng, looking intently west across the harbor, beyond Point Loma, out to the Pacific where the enemy was. There was no visible excitement, no hysteria, and no release in words for the emotions behind the grim, determined faces...