Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
Last week, George McCullagh, now 43 and cocky as ever, closed another newspaper deal. For $3,610,000, he bought the 72-year-old Toronto Evening Telegram.* That gave him control of two of the three big daily newspapers in Canada's second city, with a total circulation...
...could have selected a tougher team for the Crimson hockey forces to open against McGill and Toronto both had open dates. But if the schedule makers were hunting for a bruising squad, they couldn't have picked a better one than...
Although McGill last year was rated one of the hottest squash teams in Canada, the Varsity scored an 8 to 1 win when they visited Montreal one weekend before Christmas. Before leaving they also whipped the University of Toronto and the Montreal Badminton and Squash Club for good measure...
...nosed Wallace Sterling, 42, is an ex-football player himself (at the University of Toronto), who also likes to raise delphiniums. The son of an Ontario minister, he taught history and coached football at Saskatchewan's Regina College, then moved to the U.S. in 1932. While earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, he became a history instructor at CalTech. Most Californians know him best as a weekly radio news commentator (for Day & Night water heaters). Last spring he became director of the famed Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, Calif...