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...your article . . . the views of Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt were given on the permanent collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It is only fair to state that, as the former director of that gallery on a three-year contract from November 1950 to November 1953, I arrived at approximately the same conclusions and last October handed Dr. Eckhardt my written report...
Their job of seeing that copies are delivered on schedule in the right quantity sometimes requires emergency action. For example, last month a plane carrying the newsstand copies of TIME for British Columbia and Alberta crashed and burned. The American News Co. in Winnipeg called TIME'S production office in Chicago to rush all available extra copies west. Callahan phoned his distributors in Toronto and Montreal to strip their newsstands to the bare minimum and air-express the copies to Vancouver, where Pearson was busy making special arrangements with his distributors to meet the off-schedule shipments as they...
...ghosts and then some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread. It appeared in Seattle, in Yakima and in Spokane. It flashed up to Winnipeg, down to Amarillo, across to Milwaukee and all the way to West Islip...
Manitobans like to boast that their Music Competition Festival, held in Winnipeg every year since 1918, is the biggest and best of its kind in the world. There seems to be little doubt about the bigness; tourist folders proudly proclaim that more than 20,000 children from the province's schools take part...
...some residents of the province wondered last week whether the statistics should not be revised downward. A Winnipeg mother, entering her living room unexpectedly, found her eleven-year-old daughter grimacing and gesticulating before a mirror. The youngster puckered her lips, fluttered her eyelashes, tilted her head, and went through all the motions of singing-but no sound came forth. When the puzzled mother asked for an explanation, her daughter said that she was practicing for her part as a "goldfish" in the music festival. Goldfish, it developed, are the nonmusical children who stand with their classroom choirs and silently...