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There are two sports in which the Canadians expect nothing less than gold: hockey and curling, and not necessarily in that order. So why is curling a Canadian obsession? "Because we have winter," says Bill Holder, a grain farmer from Kenaston, Sask., who has been curling for 40 years. Though the game began in 16th century Scotland, Holder explains how curling caught on in the prairies of western Canada; essentially, he says, there was nothing else to do. In Canada, the shiny bald dome of Kevin Martin, 43, the Canadian men's curling skip, might as well be this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curling: Vancouver's Oddest Obsession | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., found itself solemnly carrying coals to Newcastle. After wading through the entries in a jingle contest pushing Columbia Pictures' Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Donnelley awarded one of the grand prizes-a minor part in Columbia's forthcoming Diamond Head-to Palm Springs Housewife Lillian Kenaston, 58, better known to middle-aged Americans as 1920s Movie Heroine Billie Dove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 23, 1962 | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...during which he would broadcast to England, the expenses to be paid as a birthday gift from his British followers. But that afternoon as Dr. Buchman was motoring to fulfill this engagement, the gasoline feed line of his automobile clogged, precious minutes passed and finally Grouper H. Kenaston Twitchell read the Founder's words into the microphone. Outstanding birthday greeting received by Dr. Buchman was from Groupers in Hell, Norway, who cabled: "Hell's bells are ringing, our hearts are singing" in honor of "Frank's fifty-eighth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Groupers in Stockbridge | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Elected. Ralph H. Stever, comptroller of the Seaman's Bank for Savings of New York City; to be president thereof, succeeding the late Herbert Kenaston Twitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Died. Herbert Kenaston Twitchell, 62, president of the Seamen's Bank for Savings (Manhattan), descendant of a Twitchell who arrived in Massachusetts in 1633; of intestinal infection; in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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