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This year, for the first time in their history, Canadians will enjoy a show something like the political performance that the U.S. puts on every four years. Last week Canada woke to some unexpected facts: that all three major Canadian parties will soon hold national conventions, that the two big parties will choose new leaders, and that some months hence they will fight it out in a national election. Nothing like it has happened before in Canada...
...since 1946), he has found time to double in brass as secretary (and traveling salesman) for the New England Council. He likes to preach the greatness of New England industry, and pooh-poohs statistics (which sometimes tell a different tale). At the dingy, church-quiet Federal Reserve Bank he woke things up by providing piped-in music...
They had been so long accustomed to fighting with the support of the American population that they could not visualize the danger of fighting with most of the people against them. By the time they woke up to the seriousness of the war, says Author Miller, the French were involved and "the struggle became a war of survival against some of the most formidable odds faced by the island kingdom since the days of the Spanish Armada...
...Unknown. In Brighton, England, Zoo Keeper Peter Gibbs banged his head on a metal post, fell into a monkey cage, woke up shortly to find one of the animals seated on his chest, delightedly twirling his 15-inch mustaches...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...