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Ex-Mayor Allan Lamport, Now a controlle, refuses to return the highly prized autographed baseball he flung out at Toronto's first Sunday game in 1950
Ex-Mayor Allan Lamport, Now a controlle, refuses to return the highly prized autographed baseball he flung out at Toronto's first Sunday game in 1950

Ex-Mayor Allan Lamport, Now a controlle, refuses to return the highly prized autographed baseball he flung out at Toronto's first Sunday game in 1950

Date11/14/1967
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0061173F
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Toronto's oldest Redcap, Jake Charendoff, sits waiting for new business at Toronto's Union Station, while behind him sits redcap Bert Fortune. Charendoff picked up his first piece of baggage at Union Station on the day it opened in 1927. But, although he claims the title oldest, he refuses to say exactly how old he is.
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Awaiting the word of Toronto's voters in today's civic elections are the two leading contenders for the mayoralty, Mayor Philip Givens (left) and Controller Allan Lamport (right)
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Though Jim Germany of the Eskimos has just coughed up the ball, it refuses to take 'the Argo Bounce' into the waiting arms of three Toronto defenders
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Issie Sharp, chairman and president of Four Seasons Hotels, refuses to let work rule his life
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