November 1, 1949

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Articles

The Fabulous Fraud from Eastwood

WHEN THE varnished and shiny landau of Mrs. Leroy S. Chadwick rolled regally down Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue people turned and stared. “The magnificent Mrs. Chadwick!” they would whisper, and the legend of her lavishness would pass from lip to lip. By WILLIS THORNTON16 min

Fiction

Jeanne D’Arc And the Siren Sea

JEAN-PAUL BEAUDET came home on a grey-white day when the east wind of spring was dirging in the bare trees. He got off the Quebec bus at the gates, hoisted his seaman’s bag on his shoulder, and whistling to cover the hammering of his own heart, swung down the home drive. It was two years, and a lifetime, and foreign lands and a lost boyhood ago, but still the old, white-painted stone house with its sloping roof and long windows stood just the same under the maples. By EVA-US WUORIO16 min

Articles

Jim Crow Lives in Dresden

Uncle Tom sleeps uneasily in Ontario’s Dresden where all men are not born equal, where his descendants can’t get a store haircut, a permanent wave, or a restaurant meal By SIDNEY KATZ14 min

Articles

The Loneliest Man in Canada

He’s the solitary figure in the picture — a man who slew the wife he loved and paid for it with two months in the death cell and 12 long years in prison By MCKENZIE PORTER14 min

Articles

The Dauntless Deacon of Cauliflower Row

Acrobats, marathon dancers, bailiffs and barflies, and always a stable of fighters, weave in and out of the checkered career of John Finlay Allen By JIM COLEMAN13 min

Articles

CAN YOU TELL WHICH OF HER GEMS ARE REAL?

SOME OF the jewels worn by Ann D’Arcy of Toronto in the picture on this page are valued at $6,000; other gems in her costume sell for as little as $6.50. Yet, on her, it all looks good. Can you tell which are real and which are phony? I’ll give you the answer at the end of this article so you can check your judgment against the facts. By MARGO FISCHER13 min

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