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MARHALL WM. CONLEY McMaster University Hamilton, Ont...
PETER B. SCULLY Queen's University Kingston, Ont. » It is generally attributed to Bismarck...
...born in turn-of-the-century Newtonbrook, Ont., now swallowed up by an expanding Toronto. The second son of an itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...
...Good Glove Man." After taking his bachelor of arts degree with honors in history, Pearson briefly stuffed sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
...avoid it. We seek to judge an artist in London, Ont., by as severe a standard as one in London, England; and if we are inescapably American, we try not to let any regionalism show. But for the past eleven weeks the biggest story in the biggest city in the U.S.-where we publish-has been the shutdown of New York's seven daily newspapers. This week that strike becomes the subject of TIME's cover story, and not for reasons of localitis. Everybody is talking about it, even Moscow Radio...