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...papa of the film, played by Charles Boyer, is not the pompous autocrat of Father. He is but a chuckling bystander watching the antics of his clansmen, who are notorious in the community because of their many conquests. There's Uncle Desmond, smoothest operator in Quebec, who collects garters and mounts them on cardboard. He inherited his art from Grandpere, still dapper at 67 years and spryly pursuing his latest widow. What story the film has develops when the adolescent (Bobby Driscoll) imitates the attitude of his uncles and gets in trouble...
Gaspé Basin, Quebec...
...Practical Matter. The most unexpected reaction of all came from the general direction of Ohio's Bob Taft, vacationing in Quebec. Taft spent a leisurely day with his good friend, Correspondent Ed Lahey of the Chicago Daily News. Then Lahey filed, from Montreal, a story that Taft would not campaign for Ike unless: 1) Ike promises that certain unnamed Taftmen will be considered for jobs in the new Administration; 2) Ike promises that certain unnamed Ikemen will not be made Secretary of State ("It's a safe bet," wrote Lahey, "that one of them is Governor Dewey...
...camp found this story hard to believe. Ike has taken the initiative in harmony overtures ever since he rushed over to meet Taft right after the nomination in Chicago. Since then, Taft's responses have always been friendly. Moreover, Ikemen who have visited Taft in Quebec have heard him voice no such conditions. He has promised, they report, to privately "warm up" his friends in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. But he wants to talk at length with Ike before he campaigns-mostly to make certain, as a practical matter, that he and Ike aren't making conflicting speeches...
...good," developed a technique of bicycling with one foot and changed his swimming style so he could swim three miles a day. In 1941 Lemelin got a job as office manager of his uncle's lumber mill. When he had saved $200, he went to a well-known Quebec surgeon, who suggested an operation for his leg. Meanwhile, Lemelin had been writing a novel, Au Pied de la Pente Douce (The Town Below), which he submitted to the provincial literary contest. The novel didn't win. Lemelin was in low spirits when he went to the hospital...