May 1, 1952

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May 1, 1952

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FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY
Fiction

FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY

By JOSEPH SCHULL23 min
BILLY SUNDAY OF THE BIRDS
A MACLEAN'S FLASHBACK

BILLY SUNDAY OF THE BIRDS

By FRED BODSWORTH19 min
HERO OF THE HUNTED MEN
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HERO OF THE HUNTED MEN

By McKENZIE PORTER19 min
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Fiction

FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY

Dave still had stars in his eyes and the brightest was the famous Maggie Raven. But no one counted on Rita playing the rowdy last act for keeps By JOSEPH SCHULL23 min
BILLY SUNDAY OF THE BIRDS 1213
A MACLEAN'S FLASHBACK

BILLY SUNDAY OF THE BIRDS

The call of the wild goose touched the cantankerous heart of Jack Miner and he made a home for them and a niche in the hall of fame. Many scientists still frown at his methods, but the unlettered lecturer swayed a continent By FRED BODSWORTH19 min
HERO OF THE HUNTED MEN 2021
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HERO OF THE HUNTED MEN

Defying death at the hands of Russian agents Yaroslav Stetzko leads a multi-language patchwork army of underground fighters in a crusade to crush Russian imperialism. In a Munich beer cellar he told a Maclean’s editor of his audacious hopes to break up the Soviet Union from within By McKENZIE PORTER19 min
BIGGEST MAN ON THE BIGGEST CAMPUS 67
Articles

BIGGEST MAN ON THE BIGGEST CAMPUS

Few of the thirty-seven hundred students whom Dr. Sidney Smith sends out to face the world this spring will he able to match the shrewd wizardry of this ex-farm boy who manages to keep his opinions controversial, his manner folksy and our largest university solvent By JUNE CALLWOOD18 min
Our Passport was a Dishrag 2223
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Our Passport was a Dishrag

Washing pots in Sweden, baby-sitting in Holland, drawing beer in Warwickshire, these two Canadian girls saw a Europe the tourists never even glimpse. They didn’t bring back a Fath creation but they did once try to wash themselves in wine By LENNY BURTON, JOHNNY COCHRANE16 min
THE FARMER WHO MAKES MOVIES 1415
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THE FARMER WHO MAKES MOVIES

Osmond Borradaile, the veteran Canadian cameraman who has won critical huzzas for Royal Journey, has gone back to his Chilliwack farm where he sometimes rises at 4.30 to milk the cows. And he has no intention of ever returning to the Hollywood rat race he once knew By CLYDE GILMOUR14 min
WE LIVE IN THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS HOUSE 1011
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WE LIVE IN THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS HOUSE

WHEN my wife and I took possession of the most famous house in the world in Levittown, N.Y., the lawyer representing Levitt and Sons, builders, gave us a fleeting glimpse of the $7,990 mortgage cheque lent us by a bank. We endorsed it and signed a pile of documents. By JAMES DUGAN13 min
THE CHAMP STILL BABY SITS 1617
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THE CHAMP STILL BABY SITS

Marlene Stewart, who started her golfing career with a hole in one and then quickly improved, hasn’t let the glitter of all her trophies dazzle her. Back home in Fonthill, Ont., she’s known as the girl who plays trumpet in the school band as well as Canada’s athlete of the year By TRENT FRAYNE12 min
RAB BUTLER’S BID FOR POWER 45
LONDON LETTER

RAB BUTLER’S BID FOR POWER

THE British House of Commons is like a theatre where the drama of events and personalities is played under the fierce arc light of history. It is also like the stock exchange where human values are always changing. Perhaps it is even more like a boxing contest where one blow may determine the result. By Beverley Baxter8 min
The PCs Get Spring Fever 45
BACKSTAGE AT OTTAWA

The PCs Get Spring Fever

PROGRESSIVE Conservatives are cockier this spring than they’ve been since the roof fell in on them in 1949. Realists among them don’t really expect to win the 1953 election (after all, the Gallup Poll still gives the Liberals forty-six percent of the popular vote, the PCs only forty-three percent). By BLAIR FRASER7 min
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