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The league's fairest and best was crowned at Penguin.

By Alan Success is a strange phenomenon. Take the case of my birthplace. This spring it is building a million-and-a-half-dollar classical theatre that Montreal or Toronto might well envy. Yet four years ago it was just another railroad town, a farming centre, conservative and obscure. When anyone asked me where 1 was born 1 told them. "Stratford, in southwestern Ontario, about a hundred miles from Toronto." Then Tom Patterson, a business-paper editor who was also born there, talked Stratford in...