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Beaverbrook of Maple. If, in 1917 when he was elevated to the peerage, Max Aitken had assumed the name of his birthplace, he would now be Lord Maple. He was born in Maple, Ont., May 25, 1879. Instead, he took the more euphonious name of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick, near the town of Newcastle where he grew up. Sixth son of an impecunious Scots parson, he tramped around Canada, washing drugstore medicine bottles, selling sewing machines, reading law. Social legend says he still owes 15? to a barber in Saint John. Suddenly one day he thought: What I want...
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Composer Dett was born of educated parents in Drummondville, Ont. in 1882. In 1908 he was the first U. S. Negro to receive a Bachelor of Music degree in composition. Further study at the Eastman School in Rochester netted him a Master's degree, on top of which he rounded out his training as a pupil of famed Pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb. 28) in Paris...
Biggest sourdough storyteller was the Reunion's retiring president, Michael Ambrose Mahoney of Ottawa, Ont., who flew to Portland in a checkered jacket. Big Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife...