ECONOMY and convenience are the two great advantages of oven meals. Enough to recommend them to any good housekeeper. And aren’t we all? Or are we? No special recipes or equipment and no new technique is necessary, and anyone with an oven can cook a whole meal in it.
By HELEN G. CAMPBELL Director, Chatelaine Institute7 min
THE musical-show race is getting to be almost as stupendous as the armament race. When one producer builds a picture big, another immediately builds one bigger. If it goes much farther the boys may have to call a limitation conference—possibly even decide on the scrapping of musical shows and universal peace.By ANN ROSS6 min
LIVING on the rim of the Arctic Circle, the folks of the Far North use airplane services for freight and express as casually as those of us in the effete East stick a stamp on an envelope; but they aren’t being recklessly extravagant about it.
WHEN big news breaks, readers often overlook the fact that magazines cannot be produced with the speed of a newspaper, and magazine editors wish to goodness they could be. When Anthony Eden split with Prime Minister Chamberlain over Mussolini and resigned the Foreign Secretaryship, we were swamped with calls from people who wanted to know what Beverley Baxter thought of it all.
THEY SAY that fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong. That may be true, but if fifty million Frenchmen tried to select an all-star National Hockey League team, their selections would please few of Canada’s millions of hockey fans. Hence, Maclean's does not bother to consult anyone but the eight National Hockey League managers when they assemble their annual hockey all-stars.By JAMES C. HENDY16 min
TABLES involving astronomical figures are skipped by most people because they look dull. Don’t skip the figures set down above. They affect your pocketbook. They may affect your job. Note the stupendous sums collected from the public by the Government via two tax channels.
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