Maclean's

Fiction

THE CHOICE

Trapped in a sunken ship fifteen frightening fathoms down, Giles remembered life on land, then made his incredible decision By SCOTT YOUNG22 min

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LONDON LETTER

A MAN who leads more lives than one receives more letters than, say, his next-door neighbor. And when among the day's correspondence there is a letter from someone unknown which runs to 2,000 words it. is apt to be put aside to Wait until there is leisure to peruse it. By BEVERLEY BAXTER9 min

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Articles

So You Want a Dreamhouse

A woman once insisted on a black room. But you could go just as wrong in blue. Let an expert share the headaches

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Fiction

Window At East’s

In Peter’s long fight for success there had been no chivalry. Now a pretty face threatened to upset the applecart of his security By ALEC RACKOWE22 min

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Articles

THE PROMISED LAND

Where their Old Testament forefathers found milk and honey, today’s Jews find rock and rubble, a freedom they fought for, and a chance to build a new paradise in the wilderness By GEORGE W. HERALD15 min

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BACKSTAGE AT OTTAWA

Is It Time for a Change?

SOME M.P.'s set out on the election campaign brimming with confidence. Quebec Liberals were particularly cocky—one bet a Progressive ConservaLive $50 that. the Tories wouldn't take more than five seats among Quebec's 73. Another offered to bet they wouldn't take more than 10. By THE MAN WITH A NOTEBOOK6 min

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Articles

Next Stop, Hong Kong

A cargo of painted crows put Grant McConachie into the air transport business. Now he is putting Pacific into Canadian Pacific Airlines By FRANK HAMILTON14 min

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MAILBAG

What Kind of Love Makes a Love Story?

What has happened to your fiction writers? In Maclean’s April 1 appear two “love” stories which are so unnatural and so depressing as to be almost nauseating. “The Lovers” presented a picture of two people so desperately in love that they have no children.

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EDITORIALS

We Should Dig Out The Tax Squanderers

NO MATTER who wins the election the new Government should name a commission like the one headed by ex-President Herbert Hoover, which lately reported (not too favorably) on the structure and efficiency of government in the United States.

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Articles

SHE SINGS IN SEQUINS

When the thrush with the upsweep gets on the downbeat, the dancers crowd Kenney's bandstand to get in the groove with the lilting Locke By JUNE CALLWOOD13 min

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Articles

I Went Back to a Drunk

One black night she even thought of murder. Read the dramatic story of this Canadian woman’s victory over liquor for her husband’s love By ANONYMOUS12 min

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PARADE

THE GRIN AND BARE IT SECTION

GRADUATES in agriculture at the University of British Columbia this spring leave their old alma mater convinced their college life has been a full one. In addition to all the normal year-end ceremonies didn’t they attend the official christening of a fountain erected in honor of a retiring professor?

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Articles

LAST STOP BEFORE PARADISE

DEAR JOE: SO you’ve really a mind to settle in Bridgetown, and you’d like to know what a typical Nova Scotia town is like? Well, maybe I can help—that’s if Bridgetown is typical. How do you get here? As you may know, the main rail and bus lines in the lower half of N. S. arch along the Fundy shore, from Yarmouth on the southern tip, and then cut across the waist of the province to Halifax on the eastern shore. By ERNEST BUCKLER12 min