Here is a distinguished Canadian story about the love of a simple man for a brave horse. It is as unusual —and as memorable—as The Last of the CurlewsBy EDMUND GILLIGAN61 min
He did it to farming with a pint-sized tractor that even Henry Ford marveled at. Now, with a Canadian millionaire ready to build it, he says he's designed the new car the world's been waiting forBy Marjorie Earl22 min
Nearly everybody watches it, and it keeps a thousand people busy producing an endless, zestful mixture of spice, sorrow and unabashed corn. Pull up a chair and see this Gallic hit paradeBy BILL STEPHENSON17 min
We’ve commented before on the fact that magazine articles these days don't seem to be the perishable commodities they once were. Take Alan Phillips’ series on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which was published in six issues in Maclean's in the summer of 1954.
They’re Laura Secord and Fanny Farmer . . . the biggest and busiest candy merchants of them all. Meet the man who’s run their lives for thirty-two years — while almost completely blindBy EARLE BEATTIE14 min
BEST BET The Young Stranger: A moving and intelligent drama about the relationship between a busy Hollywood producer (James Daly) and his sixteen-year-old son (well played by James MacArthur, son of actress Helen Hayes). It is marred only slightly by a fleeting touch of glibness at the finish.By CLYDE GILMOUR3 min
The fabulous Richardsons have brushed the lives of most Canadians by backing everything from bush pilots to Technicolor. Meet the present boss—a lady broker with an abiding passion for anonymityBy Robert Collins14 min
A very high proportion of the human race lives under political systems that, to Western eyes, appear quite indefensible. Certainly for those, like myself, who regard democratic liberties as among the greatest achievements of mankind, the contemporary world looks gloomy in the extreme.By ANEURIN BEVAN7 min
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