THE SWEAT WAS gradually eroding the makeup on his face, so Wally Gabler moved away from the sun to the preserving shade of a giant oak. In a few minutes, he would be filmed driving a car a few miles down Highway 27 toward an innocuous place named Bond Head, Ontario.By JOHN ZICHMANIS14 min
For a folk singer, dropping in at “Estelle’s place” in Toronto is like coming home. There was one evening, for instance, when Bob Beers of the singing Beers Family sat in a corner of the living room, strumming guitar and serenading Bonnie Dobson, while Theodore Bikel perched on the couch, toasting new arrivals in Yiddish.
WHENEVER you hear the terms, "the newest," "the latest” or “The Now Thing,” the chances are they're being shouted by someone in the fashion world. No other business pats itself on the back quite so affectionately as the garment industry. Yet what we Canadian women wear is controlled by some of the most conservative men and women in the country: retail buyers for the stores want goods that will sell in large quantities on the mass market, so they demand "safe” designs from the manufacturers.
IN RECENT YEARS, due to the miracle of modern communications, TV personalities, disk jockeys, journalists and advertising men have started everyone talking like looters, users, delinquent teenagers and grade-eight dropouts in bare feet.By ROBERT THOMAS ALLEN5 min
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