A prominent otolaryngologist (or, as we medical professionals say, an ear, nose and throat guy) reports having extracted many curious objects from children's ears and nostrils. Among his finds: pebbles, crayons and magnets. Not to be outdone, our resident paediatric specialist, Dr. Wellesley Wotherspoon, author of "Adventures in Potty Training," says he once removed a Lego model of the Eiffel Tower from a five-year-old's nose.
A 1923 Leica camera has been sold at auction in Vienna for the euro equivalent of $1.89 million. This prompts us to offer for sale our 1948 Brownie box camera. Bids start at thirty-five cents.
Finally, hockey fever sweeps the country, as Winnipeg reclaims an NHL team and Stanley Cup finals begin in Vancouver. Ticket prices exceed the annual salaries paid to hockey stars of fifty years ago.
And player's salaries today exceed the budgets, in that same era, of Saskatchewan and BC combined.
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