Word: sauveur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sitting in front of their television sets, "Jack Rabbit" Johannsen elected himself a one-man committee to do something about it, and offered his spare time to selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic tribute to "Pop" Johannsen's successful salesmanship...
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...