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...Ottawa, Parliament heard that books by Joseph Stalin and Mae West had been barred from Canada. Typical objectionable works: Joe's Questions of Leninism and Mae's Diamond...
...Western Hemisphere's first line of defense against transpolar air attack. It is also a potential treasure house of mineral wealth, and a few pioneering Canadians are proving that the good life is possible even in the Far North. Last week Sam Welles, chief of TIME'S Ottawa Bureau, who has just completed an air tour of the strategic western Arctic, filed this report...
...student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide to Governor General Vincent Massey. He was, he said, "a summer sports man. I don't ski or skate, but I expect to enjoy my visit to Canada very much...
...bustle that surrounds some U.S. businessmen. He is deliberate in manner, though quick in judgment. There is little fat on his chunky (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) frame. He has what New Englanders call a "down-East memory," and uses phonetic spelling, e.g., his lunch chit at Ottawa's Rideau Club once read: "plane omelet and rasin pie." He is an optimist, especially about Canada. Of his first view of Canada in 1908, he says: "I knew right away that I wanted to be a Canadian. I liked the people, the atmosphere, the possibilities of a thinly settled...
...along with Canada's developing national consciousness, the feeling grew that sooner or later, precedent would have to be broken. Last week it was. On Ottawa's recommendation, an announcement from Buckingham Palace designated Toronto-born Vincent Massey, 64, scholar and diplomat, as Canada's next Governor General...