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...Near Ottawa, something that looked like a white-hot stovepipe flashed wickedly over the heads of three men in a boat, they said. Other Canadians saw flying teacups. J. William Sheets of Seattle announced quietly: "They come through our yard all the time." E. E. Unger, meteorologist in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau at Louisville, Ky., reported a strange orange light rolling across the southern night. Idaho's Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead saw a whole flock of broody bright objects sitting motionless in the midday sky. A woman in Texas saw a disk...
...Globe & Mail called Drew's plan "breathtaking," went on to wave a Tory finger underneath the Dominion Government's nose: "In a few short weeks the Ontario Government has cut its way through the morass of inertia and red tape that has surrounded the immigration problem of Ottawa for so long...
...usual, Avery Brundage's crusade to keep dollars out of amateur sport got him small thanks. Canada was still calling him names because he virtually forced Skater Barbara Ann Scott to return a Buick the citizens of Ottawa gave her (TIME, May 19). Last week, when the Olympic Committee gathered in Stockholm, the Swedish press got in a few rounds of a favorite indoor game which anyone can play: putting pins in Brundage...
...train ride home from his neighborly visit to Ottawa (see CANADA), Harry Truman paused for a look at Niagara Falls. He remarked thoughtfully: "I'd hate to go over 'em in a barrel...
...Bishop Roy has something else which commends him to Ottawa and the rest of non-French Canada. He was one of the first Roman Catholic chaplains to volunteer for service overseas in the first weeks of the war, in which he rolled up a distinguished record. In 5½ years overseas, he took the route marches of the famed "Van Doos" (the Royal 22nd Regiment) in stride, spent nine months in the lines in Italy, then almost a year in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Colonel Roy finished the war as chief Roman Catholic padre. Dispatches mentioned his "extremely courageous...