March 14, 1959

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ARTICLES

IS DIEFENBAKER RUNNING A ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT?

Ever since he swept the limping Tories back to power, the PM has been labeled an absolute boss who makes all decisions himself and never asks or takes advice from his cabinet. Is the charge true or false? Maclean's Ottawa editor examines both sides of Ottawa's most fascinating question By BLAIR FRASER19 min

LEISURE IN CANADA

Holiday weekend in Ottawa

Through the eyes of their three eager children, this Toronto couple got a fresh look at our nation’s capital: the grandeur and tradition of parliament and a lively approach to the arts— with unblinking Mounties and a postcard beauty everywhere By June Callwood18 min

A MACLEAN’S FLASHBACK

MY DAD WAS KING OF THE MEDICINE MEN

Buxom lady minstrels, wrestling bears, high-wire artists and the Battle of Waterloo—Doc Kelley’s Medicine Show had them all. And small-town crowds queued to see them and to gulp the cure-alls that made him a fortune By Thomas P. Kelley18 min

Maclean’s Movies

THESE THOUSAND HILLS: The warm-hearted saloon girl played by tousled Lee Remick in this handsome western is by no means a novelty in hoss-opera but even in her case the story introduces one or two unhackneyed touches, and most of the other characters are more third-dimensional than the usual cardboard “types.” By CLYDE GILMOUR3 min

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The delicate art of giving the sack

The delicate art of giving the sack has long been recognized as the modern executive’s toughest task. It can be handled with bare knuckles or with velvet gloves, with gusto or with guile. Here are the techniques as recorded by the famous (?) research team of By BILL LONGGOOD, ED WALLACE16 min

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PREVIEW

COMING SCRAMBLE FOR PRIVATE TV PLUMS

WITHIN THE next year, half a dozen of Canada’s richest broadcasting plums —TV licenses in cities monopolized till now by the CBC—will be up for grabs. Who'll get them? “A license is a privilege,” Andrew Stewart, chairman of the Board of Broadcast Governors, told Maclean’s.

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The woman who can do anything

At 65, after bearing 20 children, “Grannie” Labine is reeve of a flourishing Ontario township. This doesi rprise her constituents, who’ve watched her build houses, cook for 600 country eaters, dig ditches and run a farm. They call her By Dorothy Sangster15 min

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How I beat my middle-aged spread

There I was: over forty, overweight and overblown. Now, five years later, I can do 159 push-ups and run twelve miles. Some of my friends are still chaffing, but I've never felt better in my life

For the sake of argument

Our anti-combines laws do more harm than good

The businessman has been a major factor in Canada’s development from a predominantly rural to a predominantly urban country with a high living standard. Yet he is confronted with laws that discriminate against him in principle and practice, impose restrictions on him that do not apply to farmers, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers, teachers, civil servants and most other groups, and that, in my opinion, are as outdated as the fifteen-milean-hour speed limit for automohiles that once prevailed on the highways. By R. M. FOWLER MAINTAINS12 min

February 281959