Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, mother of Mrs. John F. Kennedy, be- fore visitors were permitted at the grave site. Mrs. Ken- nedy did not visit the grave
The anal! spray of flowers on the grave of .‘ohn F. Ken- nedy is from the young Presl- dent’s widow. The floWers were placed early in the day by
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Canadian Baritone Faces
Heavy Schedule Of Work
attractive. redhaired wife, dmund Jacki. their six-week-old son. out of a big silver-grey poodle and a
and collie.
When he‘s appearing out of ’town, they all go along with him. In fact, they are so in- separable he tends to talk of “we” rather than “I” in dis- .cnssing his career.
By ROD CURRIE
L0 DON (CP) — E Hockridge leaned slightly
e deep chintz ' knocked lightly on the polished wooden coffee ta little gesture intended to ensure that nothing would interfere with his present good fortune.
“I’ve got more work than I can handle, and I love it.“ heI “When we are appearing at laid as he slumped back con- ione of the summer resorts we tentedly into a semi-reclining [even take along our racing sprawl, a broad grin on his catamaran. We sail and swim
ce. } all day and sing a few songs at
“It's a great, me," inight—what a life!"
And indeed it seems to be inst ‘ It all started for Vancouver- that for the handsome Canadian born Hockridge w )1 en baritone who has had a remark- icnarles Thomas of the Metro. alble string of successes on both jpolitan opera company heard sides of the Atlantic ever since ihim, at age 17‘ and encouraged (his VQice bi'Oke‘an‘d he gave Ill) ihim to take up singing profes- the piano for smgms- ‘sinnaiiy, Wllile here in the
Just now he is preparing for eRCAF during the war he began a star spot in a BBC television singing on the BBC's armed tribute to Sir Winston Churchill services network with the bands to be broadcast Nov. 29, the eve , of fellow-Canadian Bob Farnon. of his 90th birthday. with Hock- iGlenn Miller and others. ridge singing on. What a Bcau-‘ On discharge he joined the tifiul Morning from Oklahoma! (BBC but. CBC officials heard and selections from The Merry ;him and offered a one-year con-
ltract “at more money than I :ever expected to earn." The contract for the radio show mun Hockridge Sings stretched to four years and he
After that he's off to Man- chester to start rehearsing for a 15-week run in The Sleeping Beauty, one of the Christmas»
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also did radio opera and sang with the Toronto Symphony Or- chestra. In 1949 he was voted
the most popular male singer .
in Canada.
CHOSE LONDON
But Ted felt a need for stage experience and that meant New York or London—and he chose the latter.
Although his voice became well known from coast to coast in Canada. it was in Britain. after seven years on the London stage, plus TV. cabaret and pantomime. that he became a
celebrity far better known than ‘
e ever was at hom .
“The British are the most loyal audience in the world," says Ted. “If they like you. they never forget you."
Hockridge. now 44 and look- . ing at least 10 years younger, i
candy they give their children. “x _
utter tmobea nor drinks. doe. daily exercises and fills in his spare time at painting. sketch- iing and photography.
i He figures his first really big break came as the result of a whim. Returning to Br:tain in 1949, he decrded to kill time
of Carousel. the hit Broadway musrcal.
A few weeks after he arrived he heard the lead role of Jerl i ome Whyte was suddenly openl and went along for a try-out. i
“There were dozens of guys there—Englishmen, Americans. Australians. fat ones, thin ones. bald ones. old ones and young ones." What they wanted was a six-foot singer of reasonable appearance.
GOT THE JOB
Ted. six-foot-two with dark good looks and the added bonus of already knowing the score, was a cinch for the job.
He sang 1,300 performances in three years, in London and then the major cities of Britain. He also married his leading lady. Jackie Jefferson, whose Canadian father settled in Brit- ain after the First World War and who through his Boston father claimed kinship with the third American president.
In the next four years came lead roles in Guys and Dolls, Can - Can and The Pajama Game His first long-play rec- ord. A Canadian in London, came. out seven years ago, fol- lowed by 10 others and about 50 singles. four of which got to the top of the hit parade in the days
before rock 'n' roll and. the Beatles. Ted has a 21-year-old son
. . his first marriage, which ended in divorce. His wife also remar- ried and the families are good friends—“we all got together recently for my son‘s birthday celebration."
As for the future. he and Jackie would like to spend more time in Canada and he’d like most of all to go into an- other musical—when the right part comes along.
“Until it does, we're happy to go on as we are."
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EAST BERLIN (AP) —East Germany looks like a part or Germany and not like a branch of the Soviet Union.
That is natural. because it is German. in an ethnic sense It started life at the end of the Second World War as the So- viet occupation zone. but ' 1949 the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenberg. Thuringia. Sax- ony and Saxony-Ahhalt became politically the German Peoples
mocratic Republic. or plain East Germany. This area of nearly 42,000 square miles be- came a part of the Communist bloc. but nearly all its 16.000.- 000 e were. and remain. Germanic.
On a tour of many towns and cities I didn't find a single German who wanted his coun- try to become like the Soviet Union. They want it to remain German There is an earnest longing for reunification with West Germany. But the long indoctrination they have had 5 bred a fear and uneasiness of much that has developed in West Germany.
DRIFT TO WEST?
If there is a drift. however. and I think there is. it is in the direction of the West, not the
ast.
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Hans Walter Aust, editor of the East German magazine. erman Foreign Policy, ex-
pressed a view I heard from
many others. "East Germany never will accept the domination of the
big industrialists in West Ger- many," he said. East Germans
ope for reunification, he con- ' it can't come on
a long separotion might be the re
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East Germany had a back- ward start after the war. Its best coal beds were transferred to Poland and the separation from West Germany cut off the supply of iron ore. coal ets and much industrial talent. Only lately is the new indus- trialization effort beginning to take hold.
BUILD SHIPYARDS
The country has put into op- eration two new shipyards, Wismar and Stralsund. on the Baltic, which are producing mostly small ships but some above 20,000 tons. Seventy five per cent go to Russia.
ven more important is the construction of new iron smelt- ing and oil refining cities along the border with Poland.
But where are the Russians?
You hardly ever se em although Allied intelligence says there are 20 divisions in East Germany. My German in-
N 1-.
Despite Communism East Germans Remain German
formants said they rarely showed up in the cities. I saw barely a dozen. all tol _
“Do Germans resent the con- tinued presence of Russian sol- diers?" I asked an engineer in Rostock.
“Why should they?" be re- plied sharply. but made no fur.
. Few people wanted to talk about them.
Other than the soldiers. 1 could find only a few indica- tions of Russian influence.
Pay scales are high enough to give people a fair living but almost everybody seemed to feel things are better in West Germany. Pay ranges from 300 mars (officially $75) a mouth for charwomen to about 1.0 mars ($250) for highly silled workmen. An acceptable store window suit costs anywhere from 200 mars ($50) to nearly 400 mars ($100). Bread is cheap, meat expensive
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10 The Guardian. Charlottetown. Mon. Nov. 28, 1984,
liability. three were party fund- raisers known here as bagmen. one was a political organizer. another gave up hll Commons seat so Maurice Lamontagne could get into the cabinet and three provincial or na- tional presidents of Liberal or- ganizations.
A sampling this procedure Ron Collister. Toronto Tele- gram—“Nearly all of Mr. Pear- son's appointees have this in common: They all quality for political rewards for he pin Mr. Pearson to power." Peter Newman, Tomato Star -—"This is political payoff on a grandoise scale. It has left the disciplines of Mike Pearson's ‘new politics' disturbed and be ildered.” Columnist-MP Douglas Fisher (NDP —-Port Arthur) in the Commons: “I felt I had to draw attention of the House . . to how inconsistent and how silly is the Liberals’ claim to be re-
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Pearson Sparks Criticism Over Senate Appointments
By KEN KELLY OTTAWA (CP) — The can- niest politicians try to protect their rear by making their ac- tions conform as closely as pos- sible to their past pronounce-
Prime Minister Pearson may have got a new lesson in the need for this after the round of criticism which greeted the lat- est of his senatorial appoint- ments‘
Reporters and columnists sur- veyed the kind of appointments Mr. Pearson has made since becoming prime minister in
1963 and unanimously came up with the conclusion that he was violating his own precepts.
Their favorite quotation was a television address M Pearson last Jan. 5 in which the prime minister called for a new politics to emerge. In sum- mary the aim of new politics was t be the party interest to the public interest.
From this point, the com- mentaries went on to document the nine senators named by Mr. Pearson. They emphasized that one was a cabinet minister who had become a political
formers and the radicals."
Charles Lynch. Southam News Service: “A bagman's lot is not a happy one unless, as sometimes happens, he hits the jackpot in e form 0 an ap- pointment to the Senate." '
The critics usually pointed out that Mr. Pearson really was not departing from almost standard practice of the past. noting the occasional excep- tions such as Louis St. Laurent’s appointment of a Conservative and an independent and John Diefenbaker's appointment of the upper chamber's first In- dian.
Mr. Pearson is said to be unperturbed and unrepentant about this spotlighting of his choices for $15,000-a-year. life- time jobs.
Solicitor - General J . Watson MacNaught told the Commons in repy 0 Mr_ Fisher that the government intends to go ahead as soon as possible with one measure of Senate reform promised by Mr. Pearson-re.- tirement of senators at age 75.
Nuclear War Was JFK’s Big Problem
By CYNTHIA LOWRY
NEW YORK (AP) —"I think it can be truly said." declared Adlai E. Stevenson of John F. Kennedy, "that the threat of nuclear war we his greatest burden and the initiatives he took for peace were his great- est glory ”
Stevenson’s words Wednesday 1
night were the theme of CBS' commemorative program to the late president, The Burden and the Glory .of John F. Kennedy, first of many which will be seen during the next few days.
Kennedy—again quoting Stev- enson — “was so contemporary a man. so involved in our world. so immersed in our times. responsive to its challenges. ui intense a participant in the great decisions of our day. that he seemed the very symbol vi the vitality and the exuberant that is the essence of life it- if."
It was a srious and somber program. recalling many of the crises — the Bay of Pigs. the Cuban missiles, the troubles 'w Berlin—that confronted the law president and the people dur- ing his short administration
he program was primarify an evaluation by his associates of the president in the one are. and his achievement of the nu-
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