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Fiction

If It's a House You Want

They had to have a home so they could get married and the coach house looked wonderful. But how about the captain who was tougher than Bligh? By CARL DREHER28 min

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General Articles

BACKSTAGE AT OTTAWA

How (gulp) to Pick a Leader By THE MAN WITH A NOTEBOOK11 min

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PINK HOME IN THE WEST

After four years of Socialist Government and four more ahead, how Socialist is Saskatchewan? By BLAIR FRASER18 min

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Down in Mabel’s Room

From her basement lair in the Chateau Laurier, Mabel Egan rules over room service with a mighty memory, an eagle eye By THELMA LeCOCQ10 min

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General Articles

IF YOU had been in the gallery of the House of Commons when Sir Stafford Cripps brought in his Budget last April you would have seen, sitting to the right of the Chancelor on the Government front bench, two men in morning dress wearing top hats.

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Fiction

Air-nest and the Child Harold

Mr. Dart went fishing for a big trout. Instead, he caught a strange creature chewing bubble gum and weighing forty pounds By W. O. MITCHELL17 min

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Public Phony Number One

Canada’s most famous yegg regards himself as a daring glamour guy. To the cops he’s a cowardly bum who can’t stay out of jail By ROSS GREGORY15 min

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Fiction

The Human Factor

The professor’s absent-mindedness was merely amusing — until someone murdered his wife By PHYLLIS LEE PETERSON7 min

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Step Up and Meet Minnie the Mummy

Half a million folks a year spin the turnstiles of the Royal Ontario Museum to see the oldest show on earth By C. FRED BODSWORTH15 min

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MAILBAG

Union with U.S.: The Battle’s On

Canada and the U. S. Many many thanks to Mr. Arthur Lower for “If We Joined the U. S. A.” (June 15). I believe that if every Canadian citizen could have the opportunity to read your article they would certainly be in favor of uniting the two nations; united in arms in wartime and why not in peace . . .?—George Hamel, Hearst, Ont.

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EDITORIALS

Is the CCF Winning By Default?

OLD-LINE politicians are talking too much, and doing too little, about the recent victories of the CCF. To listen to some of them, you’d think the election returns of the past two months were a personal triumph for Uncle Joe Stalin. This is not only rubbish, it’s the blindest kind of buck passing.

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DON’T PANIC OVER POLIO

THOUSANDS of parents this month will lose weight, sleep and peace of mind worrying about a disease which kills far fewer Canadian children each year than the common whooping cough. Poliomyelitis, the mysterious childhood crippler which more frequently maims than it kills, reaches its seasonal peak during the hot, humid days of midand late summer. By CHARLES NEVILLE13 min