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Before the program was discontinued in 1932 it presented such leading figures as Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Stephen Vincent Benet, Alexander Woolcott, Bertrand Russell, William Allen White, Eddie Cantor, Christopher Morely, Norman Thomas, and Thomas Lamont...
Smooth Team. Howe is trusted with his enormous powers partly because of his use of them in the past, partly because of his freedom from political ambition-a characteristic he shares with Canada's newly appointed Governor General, Vincent Massey (see below). He has made it clear that he does not aspire to the prime ministry. When Mackenzie King was ready to retire in 1948, several of Howe's friends tried to talk him into making a bid for the job. Howe turned them down, and from the outset supported Louis St. Laurent for the post. St. Laurent...
...along with Canada's developing national consciousness, the feeling grew that sooner or later, precedent would have to be broken. Last week it was. On Ottawa's recommendation, an announcement from Buckingham Palace designated Toronto-born Vincent Massey, 64, scholar and diplomat, as Canada's next Governor General...
...cultural development (TIME, June 18). "We are the more Canadian for being British," Massey once wrote. At times, his icy dignity and faultless manners have amazed even the English. Lord Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and Winston Churchill's Lord Privy Seal, once observed "Fine chap, Vincent, but he does make one feel a bit of a savage." Massey unbends rarely, although close friends who have seen him at charades rate him a better natural actor than his younger brother Raymond, long a U.S. stage and screen star (and now a U.S. citizen...
...mayor of Isnello, Sicily announced that his village (pop. 4,107) would soon have a new public shower bath, thanks to New York City's Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, who sent over $2,400 for the installation after visiting his birthplace last fall...