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...Crusader Yearlings will begin at the same time but will be run over a two and seven-tenths mile route around the horse track. Coach Bill Neufeld's entries will be Russ Farrington, Dick Bryan, Ed French, Nans Hachman, Milton Hughes, Jim McCulloch, Hugh McCaffrey, John Shea, Blanch Lyon, and Max Pincus...
Canadians know Mitch Hepburn as the Liberal Premier of Ontario, a tough, loud-talking self-made politico on the lines of the late Huey Long, whose political leitmotiv is making ill-tempered cracks at the leader of the Dominion's Liberal Party, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. They know him as a onetime pal of Quebec's smalltime "fascist" Maurice Duplessis, but now 110% for all aid to Britain. They know him as a perennial dark horse who, because of his enmity to King, can never be counted on to take the leading role in the Canadian...
...made," he confided, "was not learning how to play craps or poker." ∙ ∙ Paul V. McNutt's pretty daughter, Louise, 20, offered a plan for gas conservation: "Park more and drive less." ∙ ∙ Enormously popular with the British as radio entertainers, oldtime U.S. Film Stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels will come home next week "to tell the people of America what is needed for the war effort. . . ." ∙ ∙ Parachutist Max Schmeling will referee a prize fight in Brussels next week. He's still on "recovery leave." ∙ ∙ When veteran Speed Flyer Laura Ingalls...
...cost of power-seaway project is $579,000,000. Of this, Canada is to pay $277,000,000 (including credit of $133,000,000 for completed Welland Canal around Niagara Falls); the U.S. $302,000,000 (including credit of $17,000,000). Canada's cautious Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wangled a good deal: her part of the work need not be completed before 1949; if war costs are too high, she can take even longer. Thus, if the U.S. wants the project now, she must foot all the bills, at least temporarily...
Every golfing oldster has heard about the fabulous legend of Canadian George Lyon, who scored a 70 on his 70th birthday, continued to "shoot his age" when he was 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. Last week there were no Lyons in the pack. Best Class A score for 36 holes was 180 (88-92), chalked up by C. T. Jaffray, 75, of Minneapolis...