April 11, 1959
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The high and mighty MACKENZIE
Cold, aloof and magnificently prodigal, this Nile of the North tolerates and serves man only in its swift summer. Then it retreats into the frozen silence that daunted its discoverer 170 years ago
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The sleazy grey world of the call girl
High-priced prostitutes have been surrounded with false glamour by a recent wave of radio, television and newspaper publicity. Now SIDNEY KATZ explores
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The poet who outfought Duplessis
To tangle with Quebec's iron man in his own province is a deed that calls for valor. To lick him is a miracle. A versatile McGill professor named Frank Scott has done it twice. Here’s the story of the man who won one of the longest and most stirring courtroom feuds in history
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The complex riddle of MISSING PERSONS
Three hundred Canadians disappear every week. Some are found within hours, others not for years. A few vanish forever. Seldom do police, private detectives, anguished relatives or compassionate neighbors ever find the same answer twice to
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The fur trader who grubstaked our nation
Donald Smith spent thirty lonely years in Labrador, then soared to a title and a business empire. On his way he toppled a government, financed the CPR, dreamed up Mounties and generated more love and hatred than any man in our history
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Will Canada ever make the majors?
Even ebullient Jack Kent Cooke is growing frustrated chasing the big-league baseball franchise that’s been “coming” for nine years Here’s a penetrating look at the confusion that’s holding it up—and our chances of getting it at all
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The famed and fearsome muskellunge
Anglers seldom bother to tell lies about our mightiest fresh-water fish because the true tales of terrifying encounters with his thrashing five-foot body and snapping, sharp-toothed jaws put fiction to shame
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Common sense won’t work with children
It’s a widely touted virtue but it’s almost useless in raising youngsters. A renowned psychiatrist tells why
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For the sake of argument
Canada should get out of the Arctic
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Mailbag
Mailbag
Should a juror take a drink? Has Social Credit an answer to unemployment? The med men aren't dead yet
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