October 15, 1949

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STRAIGHT TALK FROM MIKE PEARSON

The man who speaks for Canada abroad says bluntly in this exclusive tape-recorded interview with Maclean’s that we won’t be anybody’s satellite. Here’s our foreign policy, nailed down plank by plank

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LAUGH ’EM AND LEAVE ’EM

AFTER Harry Spencer had wandered around a while, inhaling the fabulous salt air, soaking up the fabulous sunshine and feeling a little out of place with all his clothes on, he paused in front of a beachfront restaurant. It wasn’t Mocambo. But it was clean and inviting. By BURT SIMS19 min

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The Girl With the Teal Blue Eyes

Her duck shooting was high, deadly and fancy. That was because she was a little shooting fool with an aim that never missed, whether it was a duck — or a man By ERIC ACLAND18 min

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I WENT TO A NUDIST CAMP

In clothes at Camp Forestia columnist Scott was covered with confusion. The next day he took them both off. And found that nudists are just ordinary folk By JACK SCOTT16 min

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CARNIVAL IN THE CLASSROOM

PROFESSOR John Satterly’s annual demonstration of liquid air to the first-year science students at the University of Toronto is a noisy, smoky, fast-moving scientific free-for-all that goes on for about an hour and a half amid cheers, laughs, crashing glass, shattered goldfish, breaking balloons, rockets and explosions. By ROBERT THOMAS ALLEN13 min

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Beauty Contests Are The Bunk

IN ACTS ballyhooed as breath-taking displays of feminine pulchritude Canada has this year been exposed to more strutting bathing beauties than ever before. Billed as contests an honorable label not open to wrestling shows—most of these parades of girl meat on the hoof (the Miss Canada Pageant is an exception) are as phony as a speak-easy membership, as easy to get into as a bingo game and as naive as the dunce at a school for half-wits. By GORDON SINCLAIR12 min