March 15, 1958

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Articles

We took our girls on an Arctic vacation

It was unheard of—a family attempting the perilous eleven-hundred mile trip down the treacherous Mackenzie to Aklavik in a 14-foot boat. It brought us up against real danger as well as excitement and we’d never try again — but here’s how we proved it could he done By Erik Watt22 min

Articles

They'll swindle you by telephone

There’s a fifty-fifty chance you’re on the sucker lists of racketeers who use the phone to charm or shame you into supporting obscure good causes —and keep most of the money. Here’s how they operate and why they’re seldom caught By Eric Hutton20 min

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THE COMING REVOLT AGAINST LEISURE

Arise! Cast off the tyranny of the shorter work week! Join the anti-leisure movement and labor longer for less! You have nothing to lose but boredom By BRUCE HUTCHISON17 min

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The great back - to - school boom

A million executives, housewives and immigrants are using their bigger leisure budget to learn skills and hobbies. Here’s a report on the strongest surge in adult education the nation’s ever seen By McKenzie Porter16 min

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How Laurette Faces Life

Under the masculine nom de plume of Jean Despréz, Mme. Larocque-Auger keeps French-Canadian soap-opera fans in a lather, comforts the lovelorn, conducts an epic fight with critics and lives the life her wistful public expects By BARBARA MOON12 min

For the sake of argument

The large family isn’t the best kind now

When my mother was a little girl in Mauve Decade Boston the house was always bathed in reverential silence when Father came home from the office. The canary sang and that was the signal for the kettle to be put on for Father's tea, but no childish voice was to he heard and no female prattle. By DR. ROBERT BROCKWAY10 min

London Letter

Old charmer on stage, new champion on TV

Something is happening in the vast organized industry of British entertainment. It may or may not prove significant but some of us are daring to hope. But perhaps my story should be put down in proper sequence. In London we have two state opera houses. By BEVERLEY BAXTER8 min

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PREVIEW

A LOOK AT TOMORROW IN TERMS OF TODAY

WHEN NEW COLORED LIGHTS begin playing on Niagara Falls June 20, it will be more than a figure of speech. The 20 powerful lights (each 97 million candlepower) will be electronically controlled, and an operator at a console-organ-type keyboard will change color patterns instantly with a few flicks of his fingers.

Mailbag

Hugh Garner’s Recipe for Eating Out and Staying Alive (Jan. 4) was exactly my sentiment on Canada’s restaurant business. However, he made one mistake. By overemphasis, he gave the impression he was only fooling. Unfortunately it is anything but that.

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