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Politics: Accents the "progressive" in his party's official name, Progressive Conservative. Backs flexible farm supports, social security and health measures, more federal aid to penniless Atlantic provinces. Shunning a doctrinaire stand, he goes along with Can ada's pattern of government competition with private enterprise in rails, airlines, hotels, TV. He is temperately critical of the U.S. cultural, economic and political "invasion" of Canada, favors "Canada first," closer ties to Britain. When Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, killed himself after a U.S. Senate subcommittee charged him with Communist sympathies in the '30s, Diefenbaker sided with...
...miles by boat and muleback. At 16, pretty, dark-haired Louise made a disastrous marriage to a local doctor who was as calamitous a speculator as her father. When he was found dying at Poverty Hill, Calif., riddled by drugs and alcohol, 22-year-old Louise was left penniless with a crippled child to support. Like her mother, she became a seamstress...
...Sunday in 1826, a penniless youth of 19 from Bakersfield, Vt. appeared at Boston's fashionable Old South Church. The ushers looked askance at his homespun clothes and refused to find him a seat. Last week Boston felt differently about the Green Mountain boy": the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, named in his honor and originally endowed from his estate, put on a high-toned medical symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of its benefactor's birth. The facts that Brigham once peddled oysters from a wheelbarrow and was arrested for selling liquor illegally were little noted...
...home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last into happy marriage. Eighteen years later, when he was 43, his wife died. For the rest of his life he wore black broadcloth...
...picked up in Ellenville on a charge of passing bad checks in York, Pa., Rose even helped make the checks good in the settlement that got Di Candia out of jail. Rose made no visible profit from his unusual generosity, while Di Candia, who arrived in Ellenville virtually penniless in 1949, owned two Cadillacs, a $40,000 home, a powerboat. Di Candia said that Rose did not even charge interest on the money he lent him; he thought it was Rose...