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...blistering heat, she rehearsed for six hours with the Montreal Festival Opera Company in McGill University's Molson stadium. The next day, she had hurried costume fittings, finished the preparations with a steak dinner. That night she gave a performance that made Montrealers forget the heat. Wrote the Montreal Gazette's Critic Thomas Archer: "Miss Resnik did a magnificent piece of work, considering that she had to substitute at the last moment. But an honest and accomplished artist can do just that...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...
...Down Brands. Thanks to his father's brewing interests, Taylor was raised in the sight & sound of industry. Fresh from McGill University, he had a whirl at running his own bus service, then spent seven years with an Ottawa firm learning the investment business. Named a director of his father's Brading Breweries in Ottawa, he picked up other Ontario breweries, formed the Brewing Corp. of Canada. As president and general manager, he whittled 90 brands down to nine, and formed the Brewing Corp. of America to sell his beer...
...intimidate the Supreme Court." Hundreds of congratulatory letters poured in to the Journal (owned by the Democrats' 1920 presidential candidate, James M. Cox). The rival Constitution, which fought Gene Talmadge in the last election, was strangely noncommittal about the Journal's expose of Hummon. Editor Ralph McGill (whom capitol wiseacres were now calling "the editor dimly seen") blamed the Telfair irregularities not on Hummon but upon "the carelessness generated by the one-party system...
...mines, with time out for service in the state legislature, he moved up to Washington and the House of Representatives. He was there when F.D.R. met him and marked him for his Budget Director. Since 1934, he has been vice president of American Cyanimid, principal of Montreal's McGill University, and president of Mutual...