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Wealthy and influential men from all over Canada and the U.S. gathered last week in the fishing village of Seven Islands, on the bleak north shore of the St. Lawrence River. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis, and Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood flew into town. A cruise ship brought 275 presidents, board chairmen or top executives of six major U.S. steel companies, U.S. and Canadian banks, insurance and trust companies and mining firms. The visitors assembled on Seven Islands' rain-drenched waterfront. A button was pushed, and rumbling machinery dumped carloads of red rock...
Stephenville, Newfoundland...
Head of the "Solid State Group" of the United states Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., Garrels has done field work in Newfoundland, the Mississippi Valley, the Boulder river area of Montana, and the Colorado Plateaus...
...wrecks, scrambled schedules and great distances are all part of the week's work. Take Canada, for example. The five newsstand reps in the Dominion of Canada are Michael Callahan, responsible for all of Canada; Larry Goulet and his assistant Dick Genin, who work from Ontario east through Newfoundland; and Bill Pearson, with his assistant Dick Schouten, responsible for Manitoba west through British Columbia...
...captain in 1946, and went back to the World-Herald. Three years later, when Darling retired, the Trib, which had been printing his syndicated cartoons, hired Dowling. Dowling lives at Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y. with his wife, two children and "the biggest dog in the world" (a 180-lb. Newfoundland), has one consuming pastime that well fits his gentle nature if not his size (6 ft., 175 Ibs.). As often as he can, he plays his own complicated brand of croquet. Says he: "Golf and bowling require no brains at all. Croquet is a game of skill and brains-forgotten...