Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...epileptics in the U.S. have a better chance of leading normal life than ever before. Such is the optimistic opinion of two top-flight experts in epilepsy: Dr. Wilder Penfield, head of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and Dr. Theodore Charles Erickson of the University of Wisconsin. Last week they published the scientific reasons for this belief in an authoritative text on epilepsy (Epilepsy and Cerebral Localization; C. C. Thomas...
London revealed that when British Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bownill, Atlantic Ferry Command head, flew from Canada to England last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 20) his bomber carried an unusual cargo: 100 yards of canvas for London's firemen to paint pictures on. It was sent by the Montreal Arts Club, which, impressed by a recent Canada exhibition of London firemen's art, had decided to do something "in admiration of the fine work of the men who fought the battle of flames and recorded it in paint...
...Frederick's job as chief of the Atlantic Ferry Command has been "purely administrative." What Britons and Canadians wanted to know last week was why he had left his desk at Montreal's new Dorval Airport. They wondered whether the 61-year-old Marshal was slated to get a still more important command, even though Lady Bowhill, who works in the command's code room, this week had taken a new apartment in Montreal...
...this record neither Sir Frederick nor the R.A.F. takes full credit. The ferry route was pioneered last year by the civilian Atlantic Ferry Organization ("Atfero" for short) headed by a Montreal banker, Morris W. Wilson. Atfero hired the pilots, planned the routes, selected the airports. set up weather and radiocommunication stations. Sir Frederick's job was to smooth out rough spots until flying the Atlantic became a matter of routine...
Helen Morgan's path from ribbon counter to Broadway included detours into a biscuit factory, nursing, posing for step-in ads. While modeling in Montreal, she was chosen Miss Mount Royal, whisked to New York City by an enterprising press agent, where she was greeted by burbling Mayor Hylan as a "Canadian beauty." Promptly signed up by Billy Rose as singer for a small hotspot, she couldn't make herself heard or seen until the late, great Ring Lardner boosted her to the top of a piano. After that, she always sat on one to sing her husky...