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...sparkplug of Newfoundland's drive to the future is a bouncy, bow-tied little (5 ft. 6 in.) man, Joseph Roberts Smallwood, 51, the provincial premier. A onetime radio announcer, Joey Smallwood stumped the island in 1948, and almost singlehandedly broke down its stubborn resistance to union with Canada. Elected the first premier, he set up an economic program that has brought a healthy flow of industry and capital into the province. Newfoundland's low income is already up nearly 300% above the 1939 level, and Joey Smallwood's drive is still going strong. Last week...
Last summer Newfoundlanders elected a national convention of 45 members to see if they should carry on with a British-appointed commission as the ruling body, or if it was time for a change. When the convention met, a fortnight ago, Delegate Joseph Smallwood, 46, who had turned from writing to farming and from pig raising to politics, came out flatly for confederation. He proposed that the convention send a delegation to Ottawa at once to ask for terms. It was just like old times. Delegate Kenneth Brown, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union, jumped to his feet...
...idea for it did not originate with us. It began with Robert J. Smallwood, president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. (tea and soups), who felt that his firm, being a food company, had a special obligation to try to do something about helping the hungry peoples of the world. He asked his advertising agency, Young & Rubicam, for suggestions, and they decided that the MARCH OF TIME'S kind of presentation was best suited...
Married. Morton Cecil ("Mort") Cooper, 33, burly Boston Braves ace pitcher (who on his wedding night was knocked out of the box by unfeeling St. Louis Cardinals); and Viola ("Dee") Smallwood, 25; he for the third time, she for the first; in Boston...
There is the battle of Long Island, like an old panorama print, with Smallwood's line of brown-clad Marylanders saving the routed American forces. There are weird night scenes in the Long Island swamps where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly...