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WOMEN AND THE HOME

Holiday Desserts

REAL DEVOTEES of plum pudding won’t admit that any other dish can properly round out a Christmas dinner. “All else is mere compromise,” they say. “We’ve always had a pudding and we always will.” There’s no objection, understand, so long as your digestion is as strong as your conviction. By HELEN G. CAMPBELL10 min

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Shots and Angles

Conquest CONQUEST” has all the magnificence you might expect of a film that combines the life of Napoleon, the art of Garbo, and the fabulous production resources of Metro-GoldwynMayer. This is historical pageantry on the de Mille scale, with the difference that here the brilliant panoply of the period keeps to its place as background. By ANN ROSS7 min

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HUMOR

Parade

MOST EDITORS are feeling pretty low in their minds these days about the goings on of Premier Aberhart of Alberta, but not us. It isn’t because we are just naturally contrary minded about things, either. The reason is that without good Doctor Aberhart and his goings on, there would be times when we would hardly know where to turn for authentic material with which to pack this page.

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HUMOR

Wit and Wisdom

In Fewer Words

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In the Confidence

WHEN WE invited our readers to tell us about their Strangest Christmas we had no idea that in Canada there could be so many people who have participated in unusual, dramatic and weird happenings, both here and in remote corners of the earth and sea.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Crisis in Alberta

"A revolt against debt ... in a province politically a maverick" By W. A. IRWIN19 min

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Maclean's Editorials

Social Security WHAT THE workingman wants more than anything else is to be rid of Fear. He wants Security. Security against long periods of unemployment, against accident and sickness, against poverty when his age slows down his earning capacity; security under which he can, in reasonable comfort, plan for his wife and family.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Wire Magic

What happens when you send one of the 16,000,000 telegraph messages that flash across Canada every year By FREDERICK EDWARDS16 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

LONDON LETTER

When Parliament Laughs By Beverley Baxter's14 min

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FICTION

the FuR MASTERS

In which romance wrestles with a feud and a heroic tale of the Old North reaches a smashing climax By ALAN SULLIVAN35 min

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FICTION

Night Bus

Drama on the highway and a ruse that worked too well By B. M. MILLER14 min

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FICTION

The Buttered Side

AUDREY BALLARD looked thoughtfully about the narrow room, as if to imprint upon her memory—-for some good purpose of her own—the bed with its limp inadequate mattress, the cheap oak bureau with its eternally missing drawer knob, the torn chintz screen that concealed the wash-bowl. By JOSEPHINE BENTHAM28 min