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...tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously had something big up his sleeve...
Lickety-split from a blizzardy Georgia vacation went William Lyon Phelps to New Haven, to see a Yale production of Timon of Athens, which put him one step closer to his life-long ambition: to see all of Shakespeare's plays before he dies. Of the Bard's putative 37 dramas, Emeritus Professor Phelps, 75, has now seen all but Two Gentlemen of Verona, three-part Henry...
...Canadian politics, Ontario's Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, broke with his Party chief, Canada's Prime Minister. Ever since then the two men have avoided and talked about each other like a couple of feuding Corsicans. Last week Mitchell Hepburn took a potshot at William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...been tentatively set for June 1. According to Ingersoll's plans, it will carry no advertising for at least two years but will run, as news, a digest of advertisements carried on other Manhattan papers. Managing editor of the paper will be burly, apoplectic George Harry Lyon, onetime city editor of the New York World-Telegram (1929-33), editor of the Buffalo Times until it folded last July. Editor of his own paper will be Ralph McAllister Ingersoll...
Promptly in Ottawa bookish Canadian Governor General Baron Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, both adept quotation spotters, expressed themselves as "most interested in the authorship of the quotation," but stumped. Cried Canadian Parliamentary Librarian Francis Hardy: "I have looked in every known work of appropriate reference without finding...