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Even before St. Paul wrote these words in his letter to the Corinthians, Christians were debating whether or not the dedicated man of God should marry. Last fortnight in Wolverhampton, England, the Rev. Wilfrid Ellis, 60, Anglican bachelor vicar of St. George's Church, took a contemporary look at the matter in his parish magazine...
...responsible for transplanting the tune is Wilfrid Thomas, Australian disc jockey, who picked up the record in a back street in Hong Kong, brought it to London with him last winter. The oriental lilt caught the British fancy. A flood of letters and inquiries at record shops sent Columbia Records' British affiliate on a hot-breathed search for the old master copy of the Chinese record. Their Far Eastern division finally uncovered it in India, flew it to London...
...event of some consequence in Canada's history that young Willie King decided that night to switch to government service. Before he had been on the job many months, his skill as an executive and organizer caught the eye of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Within nine years he moved out of the Civil Service and into Laurier's cabinet as Minister of Labor. When Laurier died in 1919, King took over as head of the Liberal Party...
...Prime Minister, St. Laurent follows a rigid routine. By 9:35 a.m. he is at his desk, once the desk of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's only other French Canadian Prime Minister (1896-1911). At lunchtime, he usually walks across the street alone (he has no bodyguard) to the staid and stark Rideau Club, where he customarily sits with other cabinet members at the "Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members...
...with a trace of pride: "I know nothing of politics or politicians." The boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...