At eighteen, Hugh Graham started the Montreal Star on a few dollars—To-day Lord Atholstan is the Crusading Baron of the Fourth EstateBy ‘USQUEAD’23 min
Mr. Raine here describes two little-known branches of government service—the Canadian Bureau of Statistics and the Canadian Motion Picture BureauBy NORMAN REILLY RAINE15 min
IT IS the sixth of August, 1927. Under a scorching sun, 40,000 people are massed on the banks of the Detroit River at Trenton, Michigan, drawn there by the Fifty-fifth Annual Regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, now held tensely by the drama of the greatest moment in the history of singles sculling in America.
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