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...staff for a long siege. President Roosevelt called him "a good fixer and boss trader." In 1942 F.D.R. switched him to Turkey, where Steinhardt was matched against Germany's crafty Franz von Papen in the diplomatic wrestle for Turkey's friendship. After the war, before coming to Ottawa, Steinhardt served the U.S. in troubled Czechoslovakia, then starting on its painful journey through the Communist rolling mill...
...clapboard cottage nine miles southeast of Ottawa, Mrs. Lester Kipp was cooking breakfast one morning last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...
...high-school classroom one night last week a group of Ottawa's retail store clerks listened attentively to the first in a series of lectures, sponsored by the Ottawa Board of Trade, on a delicate subject: how to captivate tourists. First lecturer was the mayor himself, portly E. A. Bourque. Ottawans in general, the mayor told the class, should cut their lawns, paint their houses and keep their garbage cans out of sight. Above all, they ought to take care when driving through puddles not to splash pedestrians. "The people you splash might be tourists," he warned, "and tourists...
...dollar shortage (TIME, Feb. 6), got a queenly sendoff on its American tour. Arriving on the liner Queen Mary, it was displayed for three days in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to 30,000 gaping visitors. Then it was packed into its satin-lined chest, shipped off to Ottawa. By the time its transcontinental travels end in Baltimore, in June, the royal rug will have been on view in 22 U.S. and Canadian cities...
...colonel snapped out brusque instructions to his listeners. He ordered all able-bodied men to report to Dorval airfield; house owners were warned to take down crucifixes and religious images in their homes. Later bulletins flashed the news that the Red flag was flying in Ottawa; New York was under attack...