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...latest, Each Man's Son, is set in his native Cape Breton Island, which lies off the Nova Scotia mainland like a rugged facsimile of Scotland. It is the story of Daniel Ainslie, the best doctor in town, who discovers in middle age that he is a desperately unhappy man despite work, respect and a good wife. What ails the doctor is simple enough: he wants children, and now it is too late. But since he and his wife have long ago stopped talking about their childlessness, the doctor doesn't recognize his own symptoms. When he steps...
Hevelock, a native of Canada, is an authority on Greek Philosophy. He taught at the Acadia University in Nova Scotia before coming to the University on a Guggenheim Fellowship...
...when almost all of Tampa's municipal offices were taken over by a slate of candidates supported by Tampa's underworld. Newton sent out a squad of his staffers to find out how the election had been swung. Led by Reporter Jock Murray, a well-groomed, Nova Scotia-born Scot who looks more like a Wall Street banker than a crusading newsman, the Tribune's men put together a series of 16 stories exposing Tampa's gambling and crime syndicate. The Tribune found that the syndicate had poured $100,000 into the election...
...game fishing, like any other kind of fishing, is partly a matter of luck-being at the right place at the right time. One day last week, Commander Duncan Hodgson of the Royal Canadian Navy was at the right place, St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia, at the right time, 1 p.m. He caught a whopper. Moreover, he did it with almost primitive disregard for what U.S. tuna experts consider standard routine...
...Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum taught himself navigation, by hard work advanced himself to master of clipper ships. But at a time when "our proud fleet of clipper ships was an anachronism," Skipper Slocum doggedly refused to switch to steam. By the 1890s he was without a ship and facing forced retirement. He began to think of his old boyhood dream of sailing alone around the world...