Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone (Evelyn Waugh, Brigitte Bardot), tackles any subject (homosexuality in Canada). CBC is strong on serious drama (recent example: The Crucible') and occasionally goes all out for esoterica: it spent $147,376 on a full-length production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. On CBC Folio the Winnipeg Ballet and the Toronto Symphony lure more than 1,000,000 viewers. Says CBC Vice President Ronald Fraser: "We do not degrade viewers to a type...
...stamps had an odd look. No matter how she turned the red, white and blue issue commemorating the St. Lawrence Seaway opening,* Mildred Mason, 20, a stenographer for a Winnipeg theater chain, could not get them right side up. She looked closer and realized that the center design and some lettering on 27 newly purchased stamps were upside down...
Stenographer Mason and five others promptly formed a syndicate, notified Winnipeg Stamp Dealer Kasimir Bileski of their find. Astounded at the error, the first to reach the public in Canada's century of stamp printing, Bileski offered the syndicate $1,000 a stamp...
...Winnipeg find-in August-touched off a treasure hunt for the upside-down seaways. Only a few were lucky. The Post Office Department, which guessed that 600 stamps had been reversed between printings, quickly found 300 of them. Possibly 200 more had been located by dealers or collectors; the rest were lost. Last week the Winnipeg syndicate took up Dealer Bileski's offer, sold him 16 of the stamps for $16,000. For alert Mildred Mason, who first noticed the upside-down seaway, the initial reward was a right-side...
...000sq. mi., nearly half as big as the U.S. Geographers define the Arctic as the land north of the tree line-roughly the climatic boundary where the July temperature averages no more than 50°. But the January mean in Whitehorse is 8° warmer than Winnipeg's, 750 miles to the south; Fort Smith's all-time high of 103° is 1° higher than New Orleans'. The annual snowfall at Resolute (latitude 75° N.) is less than Boston's. The summers are brief but bright, and on the North...