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...indeed. She was fast-talking Anne Shipley, 46, Reeve (administrator) of the Township of Teck by official title and Mayor of Kirkland Lake by unofficial fact. She was in New York City to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors...
...Kirkland Lake no one would have made the Astor doorman's mistake. Anne Shipley was beaten the first time she ran for reeve after her physician-husband died in 1941. But next year she was elected, has been unbeatable since. Well informed and judiciously profane, she has been a popular official...
...conference Anne Shipley was the only woman delegate. Americans fell into the habit of introducing her as "the Mayor of Canada." She was much photographed, much interviewed. And there was New York fun for her, too. She had seafood dinners, saw Oklahoma!, shopped for a dinner dress, but found only impossible size...
...gold standard, left England burdened with debt. But the war also gave one man his supreme opportunity. Montagu Norman, descendant of three generations of bankers, veteran of the Boer War (wounded, D.S.O.), had entered the Bank's employ in 1907, fresh from an apprenticeship with Brown, Shipley...
Norman worked, not at a desk, but at a big table, writing longhand clearly in a remarkably concise style. Said he: "I learned not to waste words when I worked in Brown, Shipley; in those days a short telegram often meant the difference between profit & loss." He always wore a soft felt hat at a rakish angle; usually traveled by subway with his ticket stuck in his hatband. He played the piano gently, walked a lot, carpentered very well. He is devoted to the gardens of his London house, Thorpe Lodge, where he occasionally gives long lectures to his servants...