Man-made Floods Put TOWNS
UNDER WATER
By ROBERT MOON
THOU
Montreal
HOUSANDS of Cana- dians and the houseS they live In-are now being moved to make way for the St Lawrence Serway, biggest peacetime interTIA- 1lonal project in history.
The townLS that
being
ved are just west of Montrent, at the lower end of the 1,206- mille leng water deepening
Townspeople from Morris- burg und Troquela are leaving the streets they have lived in Bil their lives--streek, that, with the construction of new dams, will soon be under water.
Wooden houses which can la fted on to carrying frames are being trineported to two new
which con *Th sites.
the towar
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Meapwntle, on the B: Move beggina, 40 uddles of eilway lines To be perouted and 30 lut luthway will be but
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MISS MONROE GOES IN FOR SERIOUS ART
MARILYN
TO ACT
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER
NYONE who pro
Armour By Les
KOREANUS from 121- ployment as a nude
Then she met James Edward tu calendar
Dougherty Dougherty player of
pollte. handsome, qalet, and worker at
nearby Lockheed the Wits 21. Sir meeraft plant
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the
it
Terenur Raltigun
potential colleague of
Laurence Olivier enn burelly Sar was not quite 16
be uninteresting.
was
It
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He asked her to marry han. Miss Monroe has shice Nurnia corded that she married him Yet the Inns of ad Mortenson purport to because she was desperate and The aunt with whom Amertet Canad
And nothing surprising lonely.
the wes living was going to markets direct and be able to
about the transition. because rally
move, That would have meant compete more
going back to the orphanage of lower transportation evils in
Amon
1} perspel of At 11:
The olfertive was to marry renching retati outlets
American
it is legend tulk wheat
She agreed. Dougherty fional that thing should more
Friend have sald, in The povable fur them
tradiction, Like This charnerS
that she Wils obviously in love with him
Sane
will
1
reach
Canadian BL
The savings in some instances muy not be large, but takers Its Intal 1314 1
Will
The coal eence of this pro jeet, however is net that deez Strait drei veach can go info 21 impurinnt the theat the
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mportance Capada's nolonial reotomy is that a via channel is provided
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vext 15, COPATE-ROİN carry from to tidewater with out recourse to shipment
necessarily
REAL IMPORTANCE
not 10
Conada is now carrying on it With a daring experiment. thin though growing population, it is trying to build up a highly-
dusty naised civilisation
miles from the rea.
Unti
1.500
They, fairy
Traditionally held to be time to the wys et pros-
TesT
Norma Jean Martenson (alias the Mart
Monroer fis
W112. Sun 1 Tamrity jm derti orphaned at an early age. She rose to screns wholly by her
93t;}TuL1s She married Great American Ilero.
She now, appropriately, rich and powerful and yet she is held to be wholly unmarri won hilly access,
con-
Mr Dougherty himself has consistently refused to say any- ths.
by
R
Ali this is vouched for by
Model
IN any case, the marriage took place on June 19, 1942 in the Christian Church, Torrence, before California,
the Rev,
MT H. Langenfalter. Lingen titer has been quoted as saying to the bride on that "You're very at- treelive, but you're very young."
more pret agents than you occasion:
coukl
shake 4
1.9
convenienlly handout at. About generalisa- tions there
complete
Nimity On matters of detail there is Her studio, lesa agretinent. now. rallways have
fur laser, long insisted that handled the majority of goods Now the new seaway will come Ms Monroe was extremely re- her private life, first particularly about marriage.
into its own.
Dut
cheaper
decesary
is transport utilise เป
fully Canada's natural products and obtain the benefits of mass pro- duction. Both land and water
necessary the senway comes at
In
transportation
That is
Construction
cor
why
One time
In moving
a mios! Canada's
themselves und the J'ople
זיז
their homes Merrury and Troquels making why for a new and belter Canadá.
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POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
*Selwyn Lloyd's quite right about the Russians' lack of candour why, fea taken them even longer co admit that they found Band Mthan I did far the Foreign Office to admit, they for them?”?
stent
about
her
Orphan ☆
SHE'S CHANGED I
was
He is not on record as having denied this blinding flash of Hollywood the obvious, and there is very Mrs
additional information little
available about the occasion.
Not
Mr long afterwards, Dougherty joined the Merchant Navy. Mrs Dougherty took at another aircraft plant.
attracte
Lo Dougherty. Hollywood because, in one was attracted month, four national magazines used her as a cover girl.
Hollywood also decided that neither Mrs James Dougherty nor Norma
Mortenson Jean could ever be a movie star. Marilyn Monroe was born.
not After
that
much
In
11 was then, or shortly after- wards, that someone decided that the Rev. Mr Lingenfalter was a man of sound judgment happened for two years. and Mrs Dougherty began to her first year under contract she was employed for a bit part model.
in one film, The film editors ON the other hand, there is
Thni was the beginning of cut that bit out.
The contract in existence a long article Saned by Miss Monroe in which her success and, so far as any-
was terminated. one can tell, the beginning of she goes into excruciating detail
The next year with a new endl of her marriage. employer, about this marriage to a man the
she got lightly who Is now a Los Angeles Dougherty is said to have como
Any Dimbles
part in a musical called home on leave one day to and
of policeman.
the
in Chorus," that his wife had a distant
She which she played a burlesque Some agents maintain, tong modelling engagement.
At the end of the year Ho queen. and loud, that Mins Monroe is insisted on keeping. it.
that contract was terminated, that sho enneel it, insisted shy, retiring, and home-loving.
too. She herself
kept 1105 gives some Sbe it. credence to this view in state-
Thereafter (four and a half ments
after the wedding) M Dougherty filed a petition for divorce in Las Vegas, Nevada, after the break-up of her alleging "mental cruelty,”
YOET'S
appearing under her On the other hand, mang res reputed to have said marriage
Mr to DiMarglo that the marriage was has
☆ Success☆
Joseph She was successful. But she MISS Monroe decided that she
since
insisted
needed acting lessons. She that took them.
thun & Guccess largely be Dougherty was not, in Any There are those who say that
caust
matter?
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The change may be a and Rupert Magazinos
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But, unions Sir Loarface and but
Ainicha never seen a To which tho nood before?" attendant replied: "Yeah, that one
looks like Marilyn Monroe,"
Mr Rattigan are mistake, it Weights & Measurements may be a good day for Ameri-Stamp Albums
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The story got round. Miss
Ten Points About Pearls The little girl from the Los Monroe's studio asked her to
yet Points on Judging Jado deny that she was the central Angeles orphanage
place for herself in Outline Relief Map of Hong Kong. Sho make a figure on the calendar.
history She may ovêti con- vince the editors. of the British "Who's Who" tha; her name be- longs in the lists,
are now said to be thome calendura 8,500,000 of hanging on American walls. By act of Congresss, it is not any longer permissable to send them
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binets
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✩Baseballer ✩
DESPITE success of this kind,
however, Miss Monroe was known to complain that she had
Men, friends. boy feared, were afraid of her.
no
sho "A
carcer," she noted, "is wonder- tul. But you can't curl up with it at night."
were
Mr
Mus
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At this entered Joseph possibly the DIMaggio, ance world's most skilful practitioner of the art of baseball. DiMaggio was not afraid.
They
married. announced: DiMaggio yours for keeps, Jocsey boy."
That did not turn out to be quite true.
Just 203 days
later, on October 4, 1054, she sold that the proposed to DiMaggio.
divorce Mr
In a court in Santa Monica, California, she urged that Mr DiMaggio had been "cold and indifferent to
her.
Mr no reply. DIMagda entered The decree
decree was granted. The extent of Mr DiMaggio's indifference is debatable. They have been seen together many times since. Mr DiMaggio has even thrown a party for her in New York. But there havo been no signs of a reconciliation. ended America's dream Thus
A:
meat
hero Tomance. married
great heroine and they went off to live happily ever after, only to appear be hind write in a Santa Monica court.
America soon recovered trem lis disappointment, however.
1
“Pr DIMaggio insisted ordinary
Sho sense, cruel. un keeping her at home and has determinedly
with the acting lessons were unim- and
You may belleye lone overmuch.
some regularity said that she portant.
not as you ✰ Producer ☆ bears him no grudge. She theso cynies of There are reports that Mis simply prefers to forget these choose, Monroe its had ambitions to four and a half years.
Theroutier, in any case, came
From films like RUT a change has pot Into Buccess, "Niagara," in which the proved Miss Monroe. Since her that sox was still a salable com divorce abe has shown an in- modity, through "Gentlemen creasing distogle for living off Prefer Blondes, in which the the avails of her meamurements, stanítated from statements MODELLING led to something demonstrated that the could she has insisted that she wants
very
to stay very, rich, and others that her only
he-and
ambition
has been to becont
Kreat actress,
Both reports
can be at least partially sub-
under her own name,
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A photographer named also sing, to the delicate fance, to be borious, and to make Blus In the circumstances, it la Tom Helley accnstonally took "The Seven Your Itch, in which will perhape as well to pass hastily photographs of young women which she proved that there interesting over there fine points. There totally unadorned. Thong he was no doubt at all that she future are, after all, some facts,
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