Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eighteen Harvard students visited the University of Toronto last week-end in the first phase of an exchange program between the two schools. About 25 Toronto students will visit Harvard in mid-February...
Twenty students from Harvard and Radcliffe leave today for a weekend at the University of Toronto in a cultural exchange program. Discussion this year will center on U.S. and Canadian foreign affairs, particularly policy towards Cuba...
...saved Stanford is its fifth president: J. E. Wallace Sterling, 56, a Canadian-born historian who looks like a heavyweight Jimmy Durante, sounds like Edward R. Murrow and thinks like Tycoon Stanford. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Sterling worked his way through the University of Toronto pitching hay and peddling furniture polish. He got his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, went on to a distinguished teaching career at Caltech, where he also doubled as a CBS news analyst. He was director of the Huntington Library in 1949 when Stanford found...
Tied Accounts. Weston was born "to the smell of bread" in an apartment over his father's bakery in Toronto. As a World War I private in the Canadian cavalry, he used his leaves to haunt the bread and biscuit factories of Britain. When he returned to Canada, he got his father to import some of the machines and recipes he had learned about. By the time the elder Weston died in 1924, the family business was already growing rapidly. But Garfield Weston was not satisfied. Said he: "I'm not going to build a costly monument...
...knows-not even the 63-year-old Joe Hirshhorn himself-exactly how big the collection is, but there are around 1,000 pieces of sculpture and close to 3,000 paintings. The treasures jam Hirshhorn's offices in Manhattan and Toronto, are scattered through his Park Avenue apartment and Cap d'Antibes villa, decorate the gardens and even the bathroom walls of his house atop Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn., and flow over into a warehouse in Manhattan. The U.S. public has so far seen the collection only in bits and pieces, but this fall it will...