Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a whoopla in Toronto last week that should soon spread all over Canada. The Canadian Army unloosed a high-spirited, always likable, often lavish soldier show. The Yank's This Is The Army had given it a model to learn from and then disregard. Two Toronto sergeants, 26-year-old Frank Shuster and 24-year-old Johnny Wayne, had authored a peppy book, some perky tunes and lyrics. Canada's Jack Arthur, Broadway's Romney Brent and Hollywood's Aida Broadbent had punched the show into shape. And civilian donations had decked...
Long overdue was the announcement Sumner Welles made last week: that the U.S. Government would at once call a United Nations conference to study the problem of freedom from want. For his significant speech the Under Secretary of State chose a significant place: Toronto, a center of strong Empire sympathies and a sounding board for U.S., Canadian and British relations...
Sumner Welles had gone to Toronto to get an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Then, to an audience of students and Dominion bigwigs, Sumner Welles delivered the address that reduced months of generalizations to something tangible...
...Toronto, which General and Mrs. Carpenter recently visited on their tour of inspection, the Army War Cry reported that after the official welcome, "brigades of Salvationists raided Toronto's sordid night-life haunts with dire results to enemy ranks. Scores of captured were escorted to the Temple where hot coffee was served, drunkards were sobered and repentant souls sought salvation...
...nursery. They got their first permanent waves, prayed in a big church for the first time, and for the first time saw a zoo. (The parrot called "Good-by.") For the Dionne Quintuplets the week was memorable. The eight-year-olds and their entourage took over 15 rooms in Toronto's King Edward Hotel. They held audiences, raced up & down the halls, were baffled goggle-eyed by a magician, submitted their black, Indian-straight locks to a hairdresser (curls in front, ringlets in back), traffic-jammed the streets outside the hotel and outside the barnlike Maple Leaf Gardens where...