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Toast to Themselves. At a parliamentary lunch at Chateau Laurier, Harry Truman rose for an impromptu speech. He thanked his hosts for his red-carpet welcome and tigerish ovation. Then he raised his glass of port in a toast: "The Parliament of Canada." The M.P.s broke into 0 Canada, and followed it with five verses of Alouette, while Harry Truman beat out the rhythm on the table...
...according to another, the descendant of a long line of Armenian kings. He became a British subject in 1902 and went to King's College, London, although the story still lingers that he entered England as a rug peddler, smuggling in his three-year-old son in a carpet. In any case, Gulbenkian early made himself a useful agent in the Near East for the late Sir Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch-Shell's head...
Cause & Effect. It all happened because Canada could not do enough for her little girl. Two months ago, when 18-year-old Barbara Ann came triumphantly home from Sweden as world's figure-skating champion, home-town Ottawa rolled out the royal carpet. The Governor General's Foot Guards Band played the music; Cabinet Ministers rallied round; kids were let out of school. Then His Worship, the Mayor, fumbled through his welcoming speech-and gave her the auto, the gift of her fellow citizens. Nobody complained at the time that amateurs were not supposed to accept shiny...
...kept the House voting all night. But at i a.m. they gave up the hopeless fight and did not return to the floor. Laborites, who had been yawning and sprawling on their benches, came to life. Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool Laborite, did a victory dance across the green carpet, triumphantly plumped her plumpness on the Tory bench where Winston Churchill usually sits...
Meanwhile plans for the annual University Handicap proceeded, with field trials scheduled for this afternoon and the running events on the carpet for tomorrow...