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...workaday schoolrooms of Ottawa's Joan of Arc Institute were bright with holiday colors as proud fathers & mothers gathered for the annual Christmas pageant. Word soon got around that a distinguished family was in the audience: Canada's Governor General Viscount Alexander of Tunis, his wife Lady Alexander and their two sons, Shane and Brian. Then everyone quieted down to watch the nursery school actors dance and do their little play called Where Do You Come From, Shepherd...
...angels, a 3½-year-old all tinseled and white, who pirouetted through the dance routines, caught a photographer's attention. When the show was over, he decided to find out who she was and get a picture of her with her family. The picture broke one of Ottawa's best kept secrets. When the photographer asked who her parents were, the little girl led him to the Governor General, who later explained it all. The child's name was Susan Alexander. Three years ago on a trip to England the Alexanders adopted her. They brought...
Because the military experts of SHAPE and the politicians of the various nations could not get together on an answer at the North Atlantic Council session in Ottawa last September, the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman, France's Jean Monnet and Britain's Sir Edward Plowden were chosen to allocate fair shares for all. Last week the Three Wise Men, as their NATO colleagues have dubbed them, made their recommendations to the Temporary Council Committee (the Twelve Apostles), on which all NATO members are represented. Gist of the Wise Men's report...
...England and Scotland, Fraser interviewed four leading spiritualists who had attended seances with the Prime Minister. From them, Fraser learned that Bachelor King had not confined his spirit contacts to his adored mother, whose constantly lighted portrait dominated King's Ottawa study and first awakened his interest in spiritualism. According to the spiritualists, King often attended two seances a week when he was in Britain, and communicated with other dead relatives, with his predecessor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with the late President Franklin Roosevelt, and even with Pat, his departed Irish terrier...
...Roosevelt message read. "Your country needs you." Some time after King had returned to Canada, Miss Cummins said, she got a further communication from Roosevelt; the President had changed his mind and thought King should retire at once. Miss Cummins sent the word along to Ottawa...