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...around this financial track block, most Canadians agreed that hearty, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Donald Gordon was probably the best man to have at the throttle. A Scottish immigrant boy, he got a job at 15 as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 34 he was picked as first secretary of the new Bank of Canada, became deputy to Governor Graham Towers three years later...
...bureaus in Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
Johnny Belinda (Warner) is an odd, rather likable blend of believable back-country dramatics and old-fashioned melodramatics. It is set on Cape Breton Island, at the eastward tip of Nova Scotia. Its chief characters are a deaf-mute slavey named Belinda (Jane Wyman) and a kind-hearted young doctor (Lew Ayres...
Veteran tuna fishermen from all over the northeast had to bow to Rodman A. Sharp '51 recently when he handed the season's biggest fish--an 850-pound bluefin at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia...
...principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced...