Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most newspapermen like to dream about buying a little weekly some day and settling down in the country, but not many ever do anything about it. Montreal's John William Sancton, 29, is one who did. Until six months ago, Sancton was a news editor of the daily Montreal Gazette (circ. 54,383). Now he is editor, publisher and owner of the 104-year-old weekly Stanstead (Quebec) Journal (circ. 1,350) - and enjoying life very much...
...Rock Island (pop. 1,395)-in the rolling, Green Mountain country along the Quebec-Vermont border-to attend Stanstead College in the '30s. As a student, he covered college activities for the Journal. When the college's main building burned down, Sancton flashed the news to Montreal's Gazette. He got a byline and his first full-time reporter...
With the advent of TIME'S Canadian edition in 1943, we established a permanent news bureau in Ottawa. Since that time, as TIME Canadian's circulation and advertising volume have more than doubled, our Canadian coverage has grown steadily. We now have additional bureaus in Montreal and Toronto plus 26 string correspondents who are high-ranking journalists on Canadian newspapers. This Dominion-wide network of reporters represents an increasing effort to get the best possible coverage of the news in Canada...
...Dodgers picked up Campanella in 1946, gave him his minor-league training at Nashua, N.H. and Montreal. This year, except in one game of a doubleheader, Burt Shotton hasn't used anyone but Campanella behind the plate...
...campus house at Radcliffe. She apparently liked the Annex, because she stayed a week. In the meantime, a McGill team arrived to debate Harvard, and the Pennsylvania lass struck up acquaintance with one of the Canadians. When last heard from she was on her way to Montreal for a long weekend...