Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Carol Charming, 32, doll-eyed musicomedienne who rocked Broadway as the dimwitted gold digger in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Alexander Carson, 29, former private eye and now pro-football center (Ottawa Rough Riders): their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Channing. Weight...
Booming Canada, with seven consecutive annual budget surpluses fattening the treasury and national production daily setting new records, last week declared a dividend for all citizens: an across-the-board tax cut in 1953-54. In his annual budget message to a cheering House of Commons in Ottawa, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott rolled the country's tax rates back toward pre-Korea levels. Abbott announced...
...Suckling child and a long panel of intertwined nudes. In five weeks the gallery counted 5,000 visitors. Three of Baizerman's copper bas-reliefs were sold, and the Art Center has already made plans to send the show on to museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Ottawa. Saul Baizerman was on hand for the opening, then scurried back to Manhattan to make Greenwich Village ring anew with his hammer. He now has a Guggenheim fellowship to continue his work, and "enough ideas to last for 20 years." The nicest thing of all was the way gallerygoers came...
...half century from 1900, when King, at 25, became Canada's Deputy Minister of Labor, until his death in 1950 after nearly 22 years as Prime Minister (a British Empire record), he had a hand in every key Canadian development. At his death he gave his Ottawa residence, Laurier House, crystal ball and all, as a museum and place of historical research. He left the 500 rolling acres of Kingsmere, ruins and all, to be added to the adjoining Gatineau National Park. Tens of thousands of Canadians now visit the two places, learning to think of their colorless Prime...
...friendly, hard-working man with a habit of calling everybody "brother." His father was also an Adventist evangelist, and Harold got his start at 17, preaching at Adventist "campaigns," i.e., revival meetings, in the U.S. and Canada. His first parish was a tiny, tar-papered church in Ottawa, where he boosted the congregation from...