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...after driving 26 hours straight from Cambridge. It was a blazing prairie day; the streets baked, and the heat compounded my fatigue. The Republican National Convention had started that morning, and the town was swarming with conventioneers. My friend and I parked our car, and drifted uptown to the Radisson Muehlbach Hotel, where President Ford was due to arrive at any minute. We couldn't see anything for the milling Ford Youth and police lines, so my friend suggested we get a beer in the bar of the hotel across the street and watch the Ford motorcade from...
...heights of 80 feet before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson, "it is a furious animal...
...Chief arranger, money-raiser and promoter for the company is President Wallace Whittaker, 58, who joined I.H.C. after 18 years as general manager of General Motors' Inland (rubber & plastic products) Division. Chief operator is Byron Calhoun, 48, a one-time bellhop who became part owner of Minneapolis' Radisson Hotel (he sold...
Once again the great Muni tears a page out of the history books and colors it up to a degree equalled only in Professor Merriman's Middle Ages. he gives us Pierre Radisson:wiry trapper with beady French eyes, teeth like Henry VIII and a goodly supply of Canadian-grown chin foliage. The plot is a confusing series of trips between the land of the beaver and the London lolly pops of the curt of Charles II-with enough of the former to make the show worthwhile. Hudson's Boy, John Sutton, finds Canada hard to handle, but Gene Tierney...
...human elements of the drama. At times the author's conversational style suffers considerably from incoherence; this is more than offset by his intimate knowledge of and interest in his subject. And whatever the relative merits and failings of the book may be, the now almost legendary figures of Radisson and Hearne, Kelsey and Thompson, and, of course, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, are brought to life again in its pages...