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DEMOCRACY ON THE JOB

"The American people spoke in a voice which will echo through the ages . . . They said they were in the world to stay"—Hutchison By BRUCE HUTCHISON10 min

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FICTION

No One Worth Possessing

Should a man be jealous of the new friends his girl made while he was away at war? Here’s one dramatic answer By HENRY BEETLE HOUGH23 min

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ESCAPE

The thrilling story of a Canadian airman's fantastic adventurts with the French Maquis By F/O ALFRED J. HOUSTON As told to Geoffrey Hewelcke20 min

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WHEN the bombshell burst and Mackenzie King accepted conscription, Ottawa was more surprised than the rest of the country, and up to the very last minute it seemed that the closer you got to the East Block the greater the surprise. Even the Cabinet itself was taken aback. By THE MAN WITH A NOTEBOOK10 min

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Beverley Baxter's LONDON LETTER

War Marriages and Divorce

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WHAT ABOUT TELEVISION?

Television is NOT around the next corner . . . But here is a forecast of what it will bring—when—for whom—and at what cost By MERRILL DENISON19 min

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In the Editor's Confidence

BACK in 1931 a Harvard University vocational adviser told Henry C. Cassidy (“Does Russia Mean What She Says?” Page 5) that he should take up schoolteaching, because he was “too bashful” to become a successful newspaperman. Bashful Mr. Cassidy lined up a teaching post, but at the last minute rebelled and got a job with the Boston Traveler.

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Something for Christmas

The preacher thought it was a good omen . . . The atheist thought it was a sign from heaven . . . We think it is one of the best Christmas stories we've read By WESSEL SMITTER17 min

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Frankincents an' Meer

When Three Wise Men stage a Christmas concert with a skunk and two roosters, what chance has a mere school board chairman? By W. O. MITCHELL15 min

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HUMOR

Parade

DOWN at the biology laboratory of the National Research Council, Ottawa, they recently overcame a crisis, during which anarchy threatened the guinea pig community. Normally the guinea pig is a torpid and docile beast, not famed for nimbleness of foot or wit.

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Christmas For Five

What does Christmas mean in a world torn by the greatest war in history? By L. S. B. SHAPIRO Maclean’s War Correspondent14 min

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WOMEN AND THE HOME

Stuffing the Bird

THERE may be people who roast their fowl sans dressing, but most folks think the stuffin’ and fixin’s of the Christmas turkey as important as the light or dark meat—if not its better half. Not for us a hollow mockery on the platter, but a bird with as much stuffing as it can comfortably accommodate. By HELEN G. CAMPBELL Director of Chatelaine Institute3 min

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