Maclean's

FICTION

Stone Axe of Ulapa

They called him a white man's tame boy. But when death crept out of the night, he met it with Stone Age weapons By LOUIS KAYE24 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Slippery Business

Bermuda-bound on a honeymoon, the Richelieu River eels caught by Jean Thuot end their trip on NY tables By PLACIDE LABELLE10 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Highball Freight

Climb into the caboose of 404, crack priority freight, and take a railroader's ride across the roof of Canada By JOHN CLARE20 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

VICTORIA, which prides itself on being “a little bit of Old England” (to quote the tourist literature), this year took what many Victorians consider a most un-Victorian step. It took the helmets off its guardians of the law and transformed them from picturesque bobbies into plain North American cops.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

"WAR IS A PROSPECT CANADA MUST FACE"

I HATE the plague of war as much as any doctor hates an epidemic of disease. However, we don’t avoid either war or disease by treating them as subjects too painful to talk about. Indeed, by such ostrichlike behavior we encourage their development, while remaining unprepared adequately to prevent them or to deal with them. By Says GENERAL H. D. G. CRERAR18 min

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Beverley Baxter's London Letter

The Tories Gird Their Loins

WHO WOULD not be a politician at £1,000 a year? It. is true that you have to pay a secretary, contribute to all sorts of charities, pay for your stationery, postage, telegrams and telephone calls and if there is anything left the Chancellor collects income tax on it.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Backstage at Ottawa

Talk of a "planned depression" in the U. S., which might help prices here. And how the CCF stole the show in l’affaire Dionne By THE MAN WITH A NOTEBOOK6 min

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FICTION

CYNTHIA INC.

Em was smart at selling smartness to Other women—but it took love to sell smartness to Em herself By PAUL ERNST17 min

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MAILBAG

Women Can't Take It

Charlotte Whitton (“The Exploited Sex,” Maclean’s, April 15) has failed to look into some of the aspects of the case. A local branch of a bank here has had to employ five women to replace three men, thus making the place very crowded. Women take a lot more time off for sickness than men.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

"Montreal Is the Town for Me"

Paris . . . London . . . Rome . . . New York . . . This writer tried them all, but it’s Montreal she loves

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Fast Man With a Flash

IT SEEMS rather paradoxical that Fred Davis, who has been taking pictures for newspapers for 30 years, a rough and ready business at its best, should have acquired a gratifying reputation and a satisfying share of the nation’s wealth by clinging to the battle cry of those gentle young men, the Boy Scouts. By TRENT FRAYNE13 min

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HUMOR

Wit and Wisdom

Mountain Music — 500 pipers will play at Hamilton Ontario Scottish games. Something awful is always happening at Hamilton.— Brandon Daily Sun. Nature’s Device—It’s alarming how many men owe their lives to the fact that most women shoot with their eyes shut.