April 9, 1960

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Articles

THE SASKATCHEWAN

The stark and lonely river that won the wayfaring heart of Peter Pond now knits prairie cities. It refreshes a land that can "intoxicate with a deluge of loveliness” By HUGH MACLENNAN19 min

How a big-city police force works

THE REAL-LIFE GAME OF COPS AND ROBBERS

Bank robbers, holdup men, burglars and pickpockets —most thieves today are specialists. So the police must set one specialist to catch another, and sometimes they must shoot first and ask questions later By CHIEF JAMES MACKEY19 min

Articles

Donald Fleming: THE MAN WHO SPENDS YOUR MONEY

DURING THE NEXT few weeks no member of the Conservative cabinet, not even John Diefenbaker himself, will arouse as much controversial comment as Donald Methuen Fleming, the teetotaling, onetime Sunday school teacher from Toronto, who, as minister of finance and receiver general of Canada, will be defending the government’s annual budget. By PETER C. NEWMAN17 min

GISELE MACKENZIE TELLS HER STORY

What I like most, and least, about life in Hollywood

Gisele seldom sees her famous neighbors, Gable and Globe, and seldom enjoys the luxurious home that success brought her. She's mostly away on the "treadmill” that brings in big money she never gets into the bank By as told to STAN SHELLER16 min

A MACLEAN’S FLASHBACK

How did we ever get through The Depression?

Thirty years ago Canada — and the world — was shivering through its first winter of the Depression. The one with a capital D. We were entering a decade which was to become known as the Dirty Thirties, as opprobrious an epithet as human beings have ever given to a period of history. By Frank Croft15 min

Articles

Our bittersweet romance with the Baltic Belle

Here’s what happened when four innocent landlubbers, longing for tropical palms and coral strands, put their money and muscle into a dubious dreamboat By RON TURNER12 min

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Will the mysterious hormone revolutionize medicine?

IN THE FALL of 1948 all hell broke lose in the phlegmatic science of medicine. It started when researchers at the Mayo Clinic began injecting a new drug called cortisone into a group of incurable arthritic cripples and found them dancing between their beds a week later. By KEN LEFOLII10 min

London Letter

The greatest moments of “my” six PMs

Every Thursday when parliament is sitting there is a secret meeting of the 1922 Committee — named after the year of its birth, of which every Tory MP is automatically a member. From time to time attempts have been made to change its name to the Conservative Private Members’ Committee, but tradition dies hard at Westminster. By BEVERLEY BAXTER6 min