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High-Flying Kite. Freeman has always been a hard driver. His father, proprietor of a men's clothing store in Minneapolis, went broke during the Depression, and when the time came for Orville to go to the University of Minnesota, he had to work his way. He made Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, played football, served on the debating team and got elected president of the university council. After graduation, he went to law school...
...delicate condition he is apt to do any tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house is painted white. One afternoon, annoyed when a drugstore proprietor bullies the errand boy, Papa yanks out his checkbook, buys the store, makes the errand boy the boss and the boss the errand boy. And one fine day, when his daughter falls in love with a circus pony, Papa promises he will buy it and he does-even though...
...answer the Caouette challenge, the Liberals have rallied their provincial support, from the Provincial Premier, Jean Lesage, down to Yvon Dupuis, a music store proprietor in St. Jean. The presence of Lesage will undoubtedly bring many of his devoted provincial followers into the national party fold. Thirty-five old Dupuis is the Liberal Party's ace-in-the-hole, their answer to Caouette. Involved in Quebec politics since the age of 25, when he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, Dupis has been described as a Young Paul Martin, a powerful speaker with the Gallic flair of Caouette. His oratorical...
...proprietor of one of the best French restaurants in Washington, I was surprised and hurt. First, the French embassy is not a restaurant. Second, Holiday Magazine gave to us and three others its annual awards, and out of a hundred restaurants in Washington, all four award winners were French and much more than "decent...
...Thomson," reported London's Sunday Express stiffly, had been to Moscow and had talked to the Soviet Premier. That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...