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...Laurent's new job was another milestone in an amazingly rapid career. A year ago he was almost a total stranger to the complexities of international affairs. Four years ago only a handful of Canadians had even heard his name. Now, in the opinion of many a careful appraiser of politics, he was Canada's No. 2 man-the man most likely to succeed Prime Minister King on an interim basis, until the Liberal Party could get around to electing a younger, permanent leader...
January. In Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the fighting phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets." February. In Providence, State Labor Director William L. Connolly reached for an aspirin, swallowed a pill for his wife's petunia plant instead, grew panicky, was calmed by an agricultural expert who informed him that he had merely taken the equivalent of 18 bushels of horse manure and had nothing to worry about...
Harold Laski, who has read almost everything, must have read Thomas à Kempis' "I desire rather to know compunction than its definition." Harold Laski, who will define anything, is still a stranger to compunction...
Dental Fleece. In Columbus, S.C., Dentist C. B. Draffin stepped out of his office and a stranger stepped in, collected $10 in advance for repairs on a patient's plates, quickly stepped out again...
...Linen, whom I have known for many years and who is no stranger to TIME, takes over my duties as Publisher and I take on a new job in the management of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE...