May 20, 1961

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May 20, 1961

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IN THIS CORNER SIR SAM HUGHES
THIS LIFETIME IN CANADA

IN THIS CORNER SIR SAM HUGHES

BEGGAR IN THE FRIENDLY CONGO

BEGGAR IN THE FRIENDLY CONGO

By PETER STOLLERY25 min
NOW I, TOO, CAN WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

NOW I, TOO, CAN WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

By Ray Gardner24 min
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IN THIS CORNER SIR SAM HUGHES 1213
THIS LIFETIME IN CANADA

IN THIS CORNER SIR SAM HUGHES

BEGGAR IN THE FRIENDLY CONGO 2627

BEGGAR IN THE FRIENDLY CONGO

Beating his way by Mammy-wagon and foot across tropical Africa, from the murderous Cameroons to the uplands of Uganda, the tramp from Toronto found that a black man ivill cheerfully give a ivhite one a handout By PETER STOLLERY25 min
NOW I, TOO, CAN WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE 2425

NOW I, TOO, CAN WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

A faithful record of the H-week course given by the widow and disciples of Dale Carnegie By Ray Gardner24 min
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF MORDECAI RICHLER 2021

THE APPRENTICESHIP OF MORDECAI RICHLER

Quitting the Paris fleabags for a London flat, Richler worked his way up from the bottom in the film dodge. He started as an extra. His first TV script is still used as a warning to young writers. And his movies have to be seen - but not by him By Mordecai Richler17 min
THE VOICE THAT CAME BACK FROM SILENCEO 2223

THE VOICE THAT CAME BACK FROM SILENCEO

THE MEDICAL DOSSIER on a Dane named Aksel Schiotz begins with a dinner party in Copenhagen in 1946. Gerd, his wife, joined the party alone. Schiotz was in Glyndebourne. England, rehearsing for the tenor role in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, and Gerd was to leave the next day to join him. By JUDITH KRANTZ12 min
ENTER THE PLATYPUS, ON ACHING FEET 1819

ENTER THE PLATYPUS, ON ACHING FEET

Five million supposedly grown-up Canadian women have deformed their feet and thrown their anatomies out of joint by refusing to wear anything but the miniature torture chambers called needle-point shoes. But that’s all over now. Soon they’ll be refusing to wear anything but newer miniature torture chambers called platypus-point shoes By Shirley Mair11 min
FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT 1011

FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT

United Appeals don’t work but civic taxes will By WILLIAM C. HEINE SAYS10 min
MAILBAG 23
COMMENT

MAILBAG

Canadians selling out? Sure —to anxious buyers / Perils of a phone number
What the cooler heads knew all along about Cuba 7071
U.S. REPORT

What the cooler heads knew all along about Cuba

And why one reporter missed the ‘liberation” By Ian Sclanders7 min
Why Kennedy will try to enlist John Diefenbaker as his next New Frontiersman 7071
BACKSTAGE

Why Kennedy will try to enlist John Diefenbaker as his next New Frontiersman

As fellow politicians, John Kennedy and John Diefenbaker belong to different generations and vastly different schools of conduct. But both men owe their power to the same unique personal quality: the ability to stir within their electorates a ferment of rising political expectations. By Peter C. Newman6 min
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