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Mopping their honest faces on a sizzling Alberta afternoon, district leaders of the United Farmers Party met last week to pass political judgment on Provincial Premier John Brownlee, found guilty fortnight ago of "enticing and seducing" an Alberta Government stenographer, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan (TIME, July 9). Crestfallen Premier Brownlee had nothing to say, but the judge before whom he had been tried had plenty...
Months ago faithful Minister of Public Works McPherson charged that the suit was a political frame-up to ruin the Premier and besmirch Alberta's United Farmers Party in the person of its chief. But last week the Press had eyes chiefly for the plaintiff, beauteous, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan who is exactly the type Hollywood likes to cast for stardom in courtroom dramas of clean women and dirty politics...
...Attorney-General's office, and Mrs. Brownlee was always asking her to tea. This nobody denied. In fact Mrs. Brown lee still appeared to have last week a certain fondness for Miss MacMillan. Put on the stand the Premier's grey-haired wife testified : "Vivian was very dear to me. Just like a daughter. She was cer tainly one of my family. She was a normal and healthy girl-a ray of sunshine...
...seduction, according to Vivian MacMillan, consisted in Premier Brownlee's telling her that illness had caused Mrs. Brownlee, who had borne him two strapping sons, to become his wife in name only and that this drove him nearly frantic. "He told me he needed me as a pal," testified Miss MacMillan. "I told him that if I did such a thing it would be a sin. He told me that he could not go on as Premier of Alberta unless I would give in to him. I seemed to be under a spell. He seemed to be playing with...
...didn't say 'part with my honor.' " mused Vivian MacMillan. "He said it would be doing the honorable thing." Since Mrs. Brownlee appeared to like having the ray of sunshine for a house guest, Miss MacMillan was able to do the honorable thing under the Premier's own roof. She testified that he turned on water in the bathtub to cover the noise, tiptoed into her room and led her back to his, tiptoeing in step with him "so that the footsteps would sound like one person." He also gave her, she said, large black pills...