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Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's prow-chinned, aggressive Minister of Reconstruction, announced a good deal for the Dominion: the sale of the $6,000,000 Government-owned Victory Aircraft Company at Malton (near Toronto). At one stroke he: 1) disposed of a big wartime property; 2) cut Canada in for a share of the postwar plane-manufacturing business...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...
...porpoise loves the prow of a ship, Shaw splashed happily in the public gaze. But Mrs. Shaw once told a reporter: "I am never interviewed, never photographed, and one of my special desires is that no newspaper should ever mention my name." She was the one woman in Britain, someone said, who put all her brains into remaining unknown. According to her own estimate, she spent "a third of my time looking after my husband...
Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall, 14-year-old granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, did bottle-smashing honors across the prow of the new U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Pathfinder at a Seattle shipyard...
Best Foot Forward (TIME, Oct. 13). A tuneful, frisky musical with "Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm...