Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home boy who had grown up "across the tracks" and made good. Like Ross Somerville he is now an insurance salesman. Somerville inherited an insurance business (plus a fortune) from his father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with a masklike mien. Sports writers described him as dour. Loosening up afterward he explained that he thought a stranger in another land should be quiet, that if he talked...
...Five only one, National Home Monthly, is not published in Toronto. All cost 10?. Only Maclean's, mightiest of them all, is a fortnightly...
President and founder of Maclean Ltd. is Lieut.-Colonel John Bayne Maclean, who looks like a Lord and generally feels like one. He rides in a Rolls-Royce, owns a big house in Toronto, another in England, a third at Palm Beach. His wife, the former Anna Perkins Slade, daughter of onetime Harvard Professor Daniel Denison Slade, is a niece of Countess Edla of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. He likes to tell how a British secret service agent whisked them out of Germany on a diplomatic train...
Canadian Home Journal (circulation: 153,393*) is the Canadian Ladies' Home Journal. Its founder, the late Harry C. Gagnier, also possessed the Toronto Saturday Night, the Dominion's best known financial newspaper, and a wide reputation for being a hard man to beat in a deal. The Gagnier properties are now directed by the founder's good friend and onetime secretary Miss M. R. Sutton...
...called U. S. industry too sanguine. Died. Sir Horatio Gilbert Parker, 69, historical novelist (The Seats of the Mighty, The Right of Way, The Lane That Had No Turning, The Trespasser, The Power and the Glory, etc., etc.) ; after a heart attack; in London. At Trinity College, Toronto, he passed his examination for deacon's orders in the Church of England, turned literature lecturer at 21. Illness sent him to California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection...