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...Richelieu-Verchėres by-election in Quebec was the showdown. Having lost three by-elections in a row, the Liberal Party had to win this one. Otherwise there was talk that Prime Minister Mackenzie King might soon call a general election, which the Liberals were by no means sure they could...
...suggesting that the Conservatives (with only 67 seats in the House of Commons) were ready to take over the country tomorrow. But the Liberals' control of the House was now slim. In the 245-member House, there was one seat left vacant by the death of Richelieu-Vercheres' Pierre Cardin. There was one absentee (Communist M.P. Fred Rose, jailed in the spy trial). The Liberals claimed that they could count on 125 votes. But it was a hard political fact that the Liberals had a solid majority in the House only with the help of splinter groups...
Alexandra Dumas (The Three Musketeers), who published some 1,200 books over his own name (he ran the first ghostwriting factory), seemed to be not quite all published yet. Turned up in Paris: the manuscript of an unpublished novel (The Red Sphinx) about Cardinal Richelieu...
...Baie de Chaleur, touring fishermen could still catch salmon, measured in feet, not inches. At Murray Bay's swank Manoir Richelieu, the service was still superb, and there was more than enough fun to go around...
Died. George Arliss (real name: George Augustus Andrews), 77, actor and cinemactor who was responsible for the general misapprehension that Disraeli, Richelieu, Voltaire, Wellington and Hamilton bore an astonishing facial resemblance to one another; of a bronchial ailment; in London...