Word: johnstone
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Song. Set up by Premier John Diefenbaker three months ago, the Royal Commission on Publications is headed by the Ottawa Journal's president and editor, Michael Grattan O'Leary, also includes John George Johnston, a Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...
...failed for the Crimson and several near misses preceded the varsity's fourth tally, which came after one minute of the last period. Dwinell shot from a zero-degree angle and bounced the puck off the goalie's stick into the cage. It 8:13, when Northeastern's Phil Johnston went out for charging, the Crimson scored again as Ted Ingalls, Alpine, and Heintzman, who receive credit for the score, pounded Bishop with repeated short shots...
...Huskies, undefeated previously in three games, showed signs of a rally at the 12-minute mark, as two Crimson penalties put the varsity down to three players. Grannis, Bob Anderson, and Dave Johnston (whose fired-up play was instrumental in the victory), killed the penalty time for a minute, but Weisbach, with help from Chisholm, scored on a 20-foot shot past goalie Bob Bland...
Bell has really a five-man line when the first-stringers are on the ice; defensemen Tom Casey and Dean Webb skate like towards in a weave pattern that has baffled opponents. When the second team takes over, big Phil Johnston and John Palmer play the conventional defensive game in the rear guard...
Perhaps the most fragrant laurel of all belongs to Mr. Johnston himself, whose poems have appeared all too infrequently in Cambridge publications. It would be folly to attempt to describe the delicacies of Mr. Johnston's style, his skill in blank verse, his felicity of rhyme; I must pretermit all this, even decline to mention the phrasing of his narrative, the ingenuity of his conceit. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking with highest approbation--upon his obvious familiarity with the Lesser Celandine, a flower whose possibilities have never been adequately explored; and his accurate and steadfast belief in Nymphs...