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Roger Lemelin, TIME'S correspondent in Quebec City, Que., finished his fourth book last month, just a little more than two years behind schedule. The schedule was something Lemelin imposed on himself in 1948 while he was working on his second book, a long (470 pages) novel, Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family). His second child had just been born. So Lemelin told his friends: "For each new child, a new book...
Lemelin grew up in the dingy St.-Sauveur district of Quebec's Lower Town. He describes his mother as "the most beautiful girl in St.-Sauveur" and his father as "a wonderful man who bought me a rebuilt typewriter for $80, at installments of $5 a month." Lemelin's business acumen and his taste for literature showed themselves almost simultaneously. At 14, he organized a group of boys to shovel snow off doorsteps, at 5? each. In the process, he stumbled across a large building filled with books - the provincial library - and, upon inquiring, learned he could borrow...
...Lemelin had won the junior ski-jumping championship of Quebec and had started to become a promising local boxer. While practicing for the Canadian skiing championships, however, he fell and broke his left ankle. A resulting infection helped keep him in the hospital eleven months...
Refreshed from a week's vacation and 72nd birthday celebration at his paper mill in northern Quebec, Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick last week came back to work. He stepped briskly out of the elevator of Chicago's Tribune Tower into his oval-shaped office on the 24th floor, greeted his secretary and asked: "Will you please call WGN [the Trib's radio station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist...
...used to blow up tree stumps. But there was strong evidence that he knew its real purpose. Although crippled by tuberculosis of the hips, he had hobbled to a vantage point on the terrace of the Chateau Frontenac Hotel to watch the ill-fated plane fly out of Quebec City on the day of the crash...