May 15, 1950

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Fiction

The Undertaker of Ste. Angele

She was partridge-plump with shining hair and a red mouth made for love. No wonder the sad undertaker tried to take Marie from Joe. Then came the affair of the coffin that brought laughter and love and life to the village By PHYLLIS LEE PETERSON24 min

Fiction

Too Smart to Marry

He was young in years but wise in the ways of women, so he played it safe, smart and light. That was his philosophy for love. After a lot of fun he ended up with his heart untouched, in one piece, and wrapped in shiny Cellophane By DORIS McCUBBIN23 min

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KILLER WOLF OF THE CARIBOO

This frontier murderer, who specializes in eating his victims alive, is slaughtering moose, deer and cattle. But he lives in fear of Dan Dennison, who’d rather kill wolves than eat By RICHMOND P. HOBSON17 min

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THE FRASER - Rich River of Fury

IN THE spring of 1792 a leaky schooner, under command of a sick Spaniard named Don Jose Maria Narvaez and sailed by a crew of 30 starving Mexican peons, was wallowing up the gulf between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Narvaez, like Drake, Cook, Bering and many others, was looking for the Northwest Passage. By BRUCE HUTCHISON16 min

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THE HAPPY TIMES OF ROBERT FONTAINE

Dear Maclean’s. — Here’s the story about that Canadian who parlayed his first book into a nonstop radio serial and a smash hit on Broadway. It should be authentic — he wrote it himself. I mailed it myself though. By James Dugan15 min

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SWING THAT DUDELSACK, MAC

Let’s hope the clans don’t rise, but it wasn’t the Scots who put the banshee in a bag. Leather-lunged citizens have squeezed the sheepskin for 6,000 years By JOHN LARGO13 min

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It Tells All Every Sunday

Selling sex on the Sabbath boomed the News Of The World to the world’s largest circulation. Even the King reads this newspaper which also crusades for Empire By McKENZIE PORTER13 min

LONDON LETTER

Bring Back The Birch

I REGRET that in this letter I must draw a picture of the Old Country which is anything but pleasant to gaze upon. In fact, so serious is the subject that both Houses of Parliament, as well as the third parliament of the Press, are hotly debating it. By BEVERLEY BAXTER10 min

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