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...STRANGE LIFE OF CHARLES WATERTON (231 pp.) - Richard Aldington -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons...
Alberta was sure it would get all this back, and more. Pre-season bookings at the Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes chalets were heavy, the tourist camps were sprucing up. For the overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
...April 20, the day before the Budget," testified Mr. Marriott last week, "Waterton burst into my office and told me there was going to be an increase in the income tax. Waterton said he heard it from Eves. . . . Eves got it from a great friend...
...Doorman Robinson, at least one witness was able to get the name of Jim Thomas on record as the source of the Budget leak. The evidence came from a dapper stockbroker named Reginald Marriott. Broker Marriott has in his office a customer's man named Edward Alfred Waterton, who has as a customer one Harold Eves, solicitor and secretary to Alfred Bates...