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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To match the razzle-dazzle politicking of Premier Maurice Duplessis, Quebec's Liberals had to set off some pre-election fireworks of their own. Last week they had the occasion: the soth anniversary of Montreal's Reform Club, bastion of the Liberal Party.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: Birthday Parly | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Schoolchildren got the day off. The cadet corps and the boys' band showed up from Lethbridge, and the 18th Field Regiment from Great Falls, Mont. Over a symbolic arch on the border roared U.S. and Canadian planes. The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: Drawing Cards | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

In his jockey costume, he looks deceptively thin. Most of his 112 pounds are padded about muscular shoulders, which taper to a slim waist and toothpick legs. In the jockeys' room, where he is cock of the walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...They've showed they can score, and they have improved with each game. One of these days they may regain prewar form." Springfield won the League on one occasion years ago and occasionally produces All-Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springfield Battles Crimson In Year's Last Lacrosse Tilt | 5/14/1948 | See Source »

In Hawthorne's hands, commercials get rough justice. When a plug is due, he bangs on his "attention getter" (a pair of crash cymbals) as a red alert to the audience. Most of the transcribed commercials are played at either very slow or breakneck speeds, so that they sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Peachy-Keen | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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