Maclean's

BACKSTAGE

BACKSTAGE AT OTTAWA

Where is Quebec’s reward for going Tory? By BLAIR FRASER6 min

If you plan to be among the two million visitors Vancouver expects this centennial summer, here's a lively preview. If you're not going to be there, this light-hearted but knowledgeable tour is the next best thing By STUART KEATE25 min

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Editorial

By RALPH ALLEN5 min

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The man who stayed invisible for thirteen years

His name was Gun-an-noot. They said he killed two man. In the B.C. wilds he played a deadly game of hide-and-seek with posses and police. Then he surrendered to a white man’s law that may have done him a terrible wrong By Howard O’Hagan24 min

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How I win races

The boy from Alberta has learned — and used—every trick in the race-rider’s book in becoming the champion jockey of all time. Here are his secrets, and here’s how they worked in the toughest races Longden ever rode

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Parade

Spring comes to the blackboard jungle

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THE PIPELINE UPROAR: How much smoke? How much fire?

Not since the CPR gamble has there been as much public outcry and private ignorance over an industrial adventure. Here is what is known about gas pipeline profits and political tie-ins—and the tough questions still to be answered By BLAIR FRASER15 min

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Maclean’s Movies

BEST BET GIGI: The My Fair Lady words-and-music team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe has captured a somewhat similar mood and atmosphere in this gay and handsome screen musical, based on Colette’s naughty novel about turn-of-the-century Paris. By CLYDE GILMOUR3 min

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Background

TOUGHER TESTS FOR SOLDIERS

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The biggest country club in Canada

For 95,000 rural women the Women's Institute wraps up high society, service club and self-betterment circle. And this club gets action—look what happened when thirty members started putting new life into Domain, Manitoba By ROBERT COLLINS14 min

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Mailbag

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For the sake of argument

Don’t fall for the modern art hoax

Recently I found myself, rather unpleasantly, in newspaper headlines. It started when I questioned the selection of Canadian paintings to be exhibited at the Brussels World Fair. I described them as modernistic nonsense which were neither good paintings nor representative of Canadian art. By KENNETH FORBES11 min

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BACKSTAGE WITH AUTHOR LONGDEN

Newest chapter in his life story: across the world in six days