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Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba. Last week, after 43 years, the regime at last lost a provincial election-just one year after the fall of the national Liberal government that had ruled for 22 years...
...reasons were much the same: a resurgent Tory Party capitalizing on the cry of time for a change. The victory carried on the political upheaval touched off across Canada by the magnetic, evangelistic personality of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, the Tory national leader. The returns in Manitoba gave the Tories 26 seats, the Liberals 19, the socialist CCF II. Though the CCF thus got the balance of power, the premier will probably be Tory Dufferin Roblin, 41, the spellbinding bachelor politician who energetically masterminded his party's victory. Across the land the long-dominant Liberals were left with control...
Crooks Brothers. In Ottawa, guards from the Manitoba Penitentiary complained to a civil service association convention that they had to wear uniforms made by the prisoners, whose intent was "to make the officers look as ridiculous as possible...
Gordon himself came accidentally into book-selling on Harvard Square. In 1922, he left a potato inspector job in Manitoba to study first landscape architecture, then English literature at the Graduate School. He was more interested in reading than exams, however, and bought so many books that he had to rent a room for them. Much of the present collection is new, but a few books survive from his days in Divinity Hall. "Twenty-eight hundred books," he says, explaining the shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came...
Young President. Educated at Halifax's Dalhousie University and the Harvard Law School, Smith taught law at Dalhousie, at 37 became Canada's youngest university president (University of Manitoba), has headed the University of Toronto since 1945. There he got a reputation for phrasemaking and outspoken intolerance of parents who send their children to college "just to prove there's nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker...