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Fiasco on Ice

Brundage & Co. say our best amateurs are tainted. So Canada, home of hockey, has to send a scratch team to the Olympics By W. G. HARDY8 min

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"THEY’RE ONLY JAPS"

Mass exile from B. C. is just a bad memory to Canada’s Japanese — a memory they try to forget as they begin life anew By PIERRE BERTON15 min

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DANNY AND THE TRAGOPED

This fish story is much easier to believe than most, because you want to believe that such wonderful things can happen By ARTHUR MAYSE24 min

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BACKSTAGE AT OTTAWA

Saved by a Blunder By THE MAN WITH A NOTEBOOK5 min

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TAUT SHIP

"Just wait” the crew snarled, but not loud enough for the captain to hear. When the chance came they took a strange revenge By MORRIS BRAND HIGGINS17 min

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VALENTINE FOR JACKIE

This story is a sort of Valentine itself, one of the sentimental kind, only the writer uses real hearts By JEAN HOWARTH17 min

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THIS IS the year of a national election— for the Presidency, the House of Representatives and one third of the Senate. This fact will influence everything important that is done in Washington until the first. Tuesday in November. A psychological change occurs among the politicians of all parties with the arrival of the calendar year of a presidential contest. By ERNEST K. LINDLEY5 min

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Why B.C. Draws the Color Line

A YOUNG Japanese Canadian, travelling on an RCMP permit from Alberta, returned west recently to visit his birthplace, the town of Steveston at the mouth of the Fraser River. Before the war Steveston, a short tram ride out of Vancouver, was a village of Nipponese fishermen. By JACK SCOTT4 min

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WE ADOPTED A CHILD

Full of fears and doubts, they took the towheaded waif. And the boy they put in the empty room soon filled the empty place in their hearts By EARL CONNOR15 min

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GIRL FROM GRAND’MERE

Jitterbug, barn dance or ballet, the gal from Quebec adds a touch to them all that has Broadway cheering By JAMES DUGAN4 min

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IN THE EDITORS’ CONFIDENCE

THE great blizzard which held New York in its icy grip or paralyzed mighty Manhattan, depending on what newspaper you read, did neither of these things to Beverley Baxter who docked there the day before Christmas. The man who writes our London Letter battled the knee-high drifts of that frappéd and slightly jaded junction for two days and then briskly took off for Canada to get away from winter. By The Editors4 min

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HOWE AT THE CONTROLS

To save Canada dollars, Businessman Howe has to say "No!” to business to the tune of $200 millions a year By BLAIR FRASER12 min

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MAILBAG

A Reader Asks For Extermination

Your article “Are They Better Off Dead?” (on euthanasia, Maclean’s, Nov. 1) is the solution I have been looking for. What else can a cripple do, especially in my case where I am also a widow? I have been in a wheel chair for four years (all the calcium gone from my bones) and I have lost the struggle of making my own living, having been robbed and cheated by people who could walk.