August 22, 1960
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HOW I CAPTURED THE RED HOOD GANG
Between 1956 and 1960, the 15 bandits who became notorious as the Red Hoods stole almost two million dollars in 45 holdups across Quebec. They worked with split-second timing, a fleet of trucks equipped with peepholes for casing jobs, portable radios tuned to police frequencies. Here, a veteran detective reconstructs his long hunt for “the slickest thieves I ever chased”
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Holiday weekend in PARIS
Where else would a tourist he escorted back to his hotel in a Black Maria by six singing policemen, all because he couldn’t remember the name of the place?
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The life of Alexander Graham Bell
“I came to Canada to die”
1870: In Britain Alexander Melville Bell had worked out Visible Speech, revolutionizing the treatment of the deaf and dumb. But two of his sons had died of TB, and his third was ill. To save him Bell moved his family to Brantford, Ont., and so began the story of the telephone
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CANADIAN FOOTBALL BEATS THE AMERICAN GAME
If the Americans weren’t so proud, says the American coach of Hamilton’s Tiger-Cats, they’d play our kicking game. And that’s not all . . .
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The Prudhommes’ drive-in daydream
If a cowboy with a lasso is chasing a bear across the fields of southern Ontario, what does it mean? It means, most likely, that you’re near the fantastic motel built by two do-it-yourself fruit farmers who just can’t leave a good ($1,000,000 a year) thing alone
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For the sake of argument
Let’s bring back child labor
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JON VICKERS: what makes a tenor boom
A 200-pound dime-store troubleshooter from Saskatchewan is suddenly one of the world’s glittering opera stars, courted by the impresarios of Europe and paid over a thousand dollars a day to come back from London to the CNE’s Grandstand Show. Here’s why
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OVERSEAS REPORT
The battle in Britain to ban the bomb
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