Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Happy Returns. In Montreal, a holiday-bemused printer mixed up his plates, superimposed on income-tax forms a picture of a kewpie doll and the caption: "Happy Easter, Sweetheart...
...runs in Peloponnesian stone quarries. His family made sacrifices to build him up: "Sometimes I eat meat, my wife eat peas." When he arrived in Boston, sportswriters regarded him as a nice feature-story subject, but no one thought he had a chance against defending champion Johnny Kelley or Montreal's three-time winner, Gerard Cote...
...slanderous statements of the criminal . . . are completely fictitious and deserve no credit." A curious Canadian newspaper began to speculate on the life expectancy of 27 year-old Igor Gouzenko (who is still in the protective custody of the Canadian Government). The Montreal Herald reported that Lloyd's of London, which will insure against almost anything, would not quote any rate to insure Gouzenko...
Herrington likes to say that he was "born in China" because his family used to spend their summer vacations at China Lake, Me., near his birthplace of Monmouth. While still a medical student at McGill University, Montreal, he married and sired two sons, later worked as a night clerk in a Manhattan hotel to help pay his way through New York University. A classmate claims that he "slept through every damn lecture...
Mounties whisked him off to Montreal. There, next day, in the highceilinged, dusty Police Court, Fred Rose (born Rosenberg), 38-year-old native of Poland, naturalized Canadian, was arraigned on grave charges: that he "did unlawfully, for purposes prejudicial to the safety . . . of Canada, obtain, collect, record, publish and communicate to other persons, sketches, plans, models, articles, notes and other documents and information . . . intended to be . . .useful to . . . the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...