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56 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle of Christmas rush on the Toronto subway; Terence Robertson says "Kick South Africa Out of the Commonwealth"; How to Get On Television - a tour of Canada's casting offices, including coverage and photos of Sandra O'Neill who won headlines for 'the longest legs on TV'; The Many, Mighty Siftons - proud and clannish for six generations they've done more to shape Canada than any other family; The Awful Ups and Downs of Terry Sawchuk - for the 'greatest goalie of all' life on and off the ice is one crisis after another; Why Don't We Send Our Surplus Food to the Starving, by Knowlton Nash; Portrait of Ontario's Highway 400 - "it was one of the better ideas of a man named Hitler"; Holiday Weekend in London; When Mother Was a War Worker - a look back at the women who worked in Canada's WWII munitions industries - article with great photo of Dozens of women standing on wings of 40th Lancaster bomber they'd helped build at Victory Aircraft in Maltonk Ontario; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad shows the clear tall bottles they used before converting to brown stubbies; Great vintage colour-photo ad for Remington Rand shows their room-sized Univac computer and Titan rocket taking off; Half-page Bright's Wines ad for their Mazel Tov product; and more. Back cover missing. Nibbling to bottom corner of front cover and first couple of pages, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Cover illustration of a Frobisher Bay scene James Hill. Contents: RCA Victor Defence Electronic Systems ad inside front cover is recruiting engineers to work on projects including the integrated electronic system to be used in Canada's first supersonic plane - the Avro Arrow; We're being deceived by the Recession, insists Bruce Hutchison; Duff Roblin - A One-Man Conquest of Manitoba; Are we really a second-rate people, by A.R.M. Lower; Why Lake of the Woods couldn't stay lost - it is being discovered for its beautiy, fishing and hunting; Have Women Forgotten How to Be Beautiful? - a Maclean's album of photos by William Notman and Yousuf Karsh - a six-page gallery of beauties; How to Get Rich the Crazy Way - Honest Ed Mirvish - article with great photos; The Senseless Slaughter of our Seabirds - hundreds of thousands are killed by oil wastes needlessly dumped by ships - article by John A. Livingston; Do You Remember Philip Emile Coue's Magic Words? - in 1923 this goateed druggist was the prophet of do-it-yourself salvation for everybody - with photos; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows young lady in soda shop at postcard rack. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Where will Daniel Johnson lead Quebec? - article with photos; A Little Girl in a Big Big Town - girls like Barbara Fulton come to Toronto by the thousands for a career, a pad and a man - many photos with article; Sam Olan wanted to put on a good show (Opera) - so look where it got him - photos with article; Where's the Walking Woman Waling? - for the past five years Canadian artist Michael Snow has only painted walking women; Calgary Yanks - oil brought 30,000 Americans to Calgary; The Secret Life of Eddie Shack, Gourmet! - article and photo; One Man, One Wreck, One Cause - BC businessman Robert Malkin took action against lax drinking and driving laws after his son, Kit was killed, by Barry Broadfoot; Great vintage colour photo ad for Honda automobiles, the convertible and the G.T. Fastback Coupe; Postcript to death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's indictment re: Aiyoot and Shooyook, two Eskimos charged with murder; When the Ghost Walked at Barrett's Landing, by Helen Wilson; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Bob Trimbee argues for athletic scholarships to keep our whiz kids north of the line; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
39 pages. Features: Berlin's Girl Spies trade Allure for Secrets - Ernst "Jellyroll" Wollweber's Red Mata Haris keep Allied spy catchers busy - Ermgard Schmidt; Margarete Pfeiffer, 'Gardy' Schmidt, Ursula Schmidt; Trappers hit the Convention Trail to discuss Saskatchewan't oldest industry, trapping; Their Sound of Music Carries Far - Les Jeunesses Musicales; Lively sketches by the talented pen of Queen Victoria (part 2 of 2); Madame Butterfly's New Look - western influence has revolutionized the Japanese idea of feminine beauty (with photos); House party with a purpose - six California women (led by Mrs. Harold Collins) get together to clean each other's homes; Colour photo and feature of Boston Bruins star Leo Boivin; Ladder you can roll up; Marlene and Margaret Meldrum of Saskatoon perform in the Ice Follies; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1794620955Bremen, F. Wilmans, 1794. 332 S., 1 Bl. Mit gestochenem Frontispiz u. gestochenem Titel. Pappband d. Zeit (beschabt, Ecken bestoßen, Rückenbezug oben u. unten mit Fehlstellen, Buchblock an den Ecken gestaucht). [3 Warenabbildungen]
32 pages. Features: Nice two-color Firestone ad inside front cover entitled 'Why Women Buy Tires" features well-dressed mother with child in car behind male driver; The Liberty Bond Mystery Was Never Cleared Up! - telegrams indicate the Secret Service worked with the Federal Reserve to keep an eye on President Harding's investigator; In the Land of the Everlasting - the cause of the everlastingness of the Chinese is consciousness of Eternity; 'Are You an Optimist?' - if you are, you will find an idea for yourself and follow it up; Old Boston's Historic Highway - State Street saw some of the most stirring events of revolutionary days; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - discussion of the repudiation of war debts; Editorials - Muscle Shoals, Scott Nearing as Prophet; Polo Makes Good in America - in 20 years the sport has reached preeminence; Newport, our 'Social Capital' - a sumptuous array of palaces by the sea; The Voyage of the Victoria - Part Played by Commerce Kings (part 4); Annapolis - Where Our Admirals Come From; Poland - Country of Possibilities; I Read in the Papers; Chats with Office Callers; Clovernook - Homestead of the Clary Sisters, Alice and Phoebe; Pennsylvania's Land of Goshen - a fertile tract where crop failures are almost unknown; A Dance a Week - Plain Quadrille and Novelty Two Step. Some damage to top of front cover and minor insect damage near bottom staple otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
106 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Old Angus Scotch inside front cover; One-page ad for LaSalle cars; What Price English Justice?; Multiple cartoons with Nazi personages; The Secret Fuse Under Mexico - the country is rife with covert operations by Germany, Japan and Italy - article with reproductions of pertinent documents; Fascism's New World Thrust - Germany, Italy and Japan have taken over the lion's share of trade with Latin America; Mussolini Vs. His Past; Smutting Up the Circulation - Sex sells publications; Yesterday's Wrong Turning - Two million died in WWI as a result of the decision of a few men; Inside the Queerest Shipwreck - the SS President Hoover rammed a reef off Formosa; FDR's wife wonders why babies should be kept alive if there will not be a job for them when they get older; Norway, The Next Belgium - fascinating article foretells WWII events about to unfold in Norway; Henry Ford buys 1.25 million acres near Punta Gorda, Florida as a favor to Thomas Edison; Dying, Well or Badly - By Ernest Hemingway - article with grotesque large photos of dead soldiers; A Measure of Recovery - Labor fights for control of New Orleans; Kemal Ataturk - Hoodlum as Hero - his record with women is indubitably the worst; Santa on Route 17 - W.E. Riker and his two-hundred yard 'holy city' in California; Exit the Gentleman Officer - Richthofen was buried by his enemy with full military honors but his memory is mocked by the crumpled corpses of women and children in Guernica; Bidding the Guild Good-Bye - The Theatre Guild takes the bumps toward the ash can; Inside the Third Reich - article on the prohibition of criticism of the Nazi regime in Germany; The Men Who Helped a Hero - the sixteen men who were with Alvin C. York when he 'singlehanded' captured 132 Germans; They Still Want to Get In - article on illegal aliens entering the U.S. across the Mexican border; Man with Six Countries - A European journalist sells the plans for the defense of Pilsen to the Germans; Wrong Man, Time and Place - Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball; Thousand Mile Gun - Britain's rulers seem to believe Germany possesses a long-range rocket-gun; Nostalgic 2-page illustrated ad for Look Magazine; One-page ad for Parent's Magazine features photos of George J. Hecht and Clara Savage Littledale; The Fable of Man's Salvation; Classy half-page ad for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel; Nice color ad for Eagle pencils features their Mikado, Verithin and Turquoise products; Nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco expert in white suit and hat. Above-average but not excessive wear. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: The Seven Year Itch - Fact or Fancy? - article by Dr. Albert Ellis; Love for Six Broccolis - fantasy by Bruce Jay Friedman; Photo feature of Patricia Stockton; Profile of Comedian Lenny Bruce; The Goal - fiction by Stuart James; The Women who Helped Settle the West - A look behind the screen at one of TV's more distorted images; The Election - fiction by Richard Harper; The Jazz Makers - Part I of a Symposium by Arnold Shaw; Photos of men's leisure wear fashions; The Casting Couch - satirical article by Robert G. Elliott; Photos of women in showers/mud baths at the Westerlands Kurbadehauser, or Westerland Health Club on the island of Sylt in Germany; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1894622610Paris, May et Motteroz, 1894. 4to. 1 Bl., kolorierter. Titel in Original-Radierung, Drucktitel mit kolorierter Vignette, VI, 324 (statt 328) S., 3 Bl. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, davon über 110 handkoloriert, 19 handkolorierte Original-Radierungen v. F. Massé nach Pierre Vidal. Farbig illustrierter Jugendstil-Originalumschlag (von Leon Rudnicki) in illustrierter, reich bestickter Seiden-Mappe (Mappe verstaubt u. etwas fleckig, die Seide an den Rändern ausgefranst). [2 Warenabbildungen]
90 pages. Features: Nice color Studebaker truck ad inside front cover; Photo of the NIM flying wing in flight; Nice Seabee airplane ad; There'll Come a Day (fiction); Atomic Age Navy - submarines may be the backbone of our future sea power; Escape at Noon (fiction); A Challenge to American Women - "American women are more cruel, more selfish and more material in outlook than American men"; Everything ShipShape (fiction); The Doctors Run the Show - the new Michigan plan offers veterans the best medical treatment in the world; You, Too, Can Drink Vodka (fiction); The Outraged Heart (fiction); Champagne Shower - Mitzi Green - article with many colour photos of ladies; Two of a Kind; Nice color one-page ad for the 1946 Ford Sedan Coupe; Running From Death - Charles Beaudry is America's greatest athlete; Nice one-page ad for the movid "Without Reservations" with photo of Claudette Colbert with John Wayne; Super color-photo centerfold ad for Schlitz beer shows hops being harvested; Nice one-page ad for movie "The Well Groomed Bride", starring Olivia De Havilland, Ray Milland and Sonny Tufts; The Happy Chance (fiction); Ad for movie "Her Kind of Man", starring Dane Clark, Zachary Scott and Janis Paige; Jungle Hoofer (fiction); Goodby, Berlin! - article with several color photos of war damage; Camel cigarette ad on back cover talks about how doctors enjoy their product; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
160 pages. Features: Cover photo of infant wearing brain-monitoring rig; Gorgeous color fashion ads; Nice color ad for Dante rings for men; Saga Mink ad; Corum color watch ad; Betty Friedan - Mother Superior to Women's Lib (Liberation); Who Runs Egypt? - who will take over after Nasser? - photo-illustrated article; Jerome Bruner argues infants are smarter than anyone things; People are finding ways to fail their draft testing; Nice two-page Jules Jurgensen watch ad; Colorful yApre cravats (ties) ad - with ties designed by Herbert Bergheim; Beautiful Monet jewelry ad features necklace and earrings from the Sari Collection; Middle Age Meets the Kid Ghetto in Madison, WI; Tissot Watches; Doc Severinsen appears in Miracord 770H turntable ad; Nice two-page color ad for Buxton handbags; Color ad for Swank "Date-O-Matic" calendar cuff links; Seiko watch ad; Psychedelic Puritan menswear ad; The Blacks Who Work for Nixon; Wild 'crotch' photo centerfold ad by Jack Winter fashions; Armando Ghedini hair goods ad; Gruen watches; Sony TVs; Ethnic fashion photos for women; They Hear the Sound of Silence - deaf infants; Popeye and Olive Oyl appear in color ad for Start instant breakfast; Photos of furniture designed by Aaron Donner; Color ad for Johnny Carson pajamas; Cuesta-Rey cigars; Thom McAn laced boots; Puss'n Boots salmon and tuna cat foods. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
Pages 161- 200. Features: Cover photo of Japanese infantry wearing curious overhead camouflage (netting and bamboo) to mislead enemy air observers; The Jonkher diamond; Five photos of Japan's dominant army at work - ingenious methods of camouflage; 5500 tons of gold for the new USA strong room at Fort Knox - six fascinating photos; The original manuscript of immortal nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard", the only copy of which is now exhibited in the Bodleian - text and many wonderful illustrations; One page photo of the Gulishan Garden in the Tabas Oasis; Rain and frost create ice art at Jonkoping Station - three photos and text; Photos of whirlpools on either side of the equator rotating in opposite directions; Eight photos display ingenious devices for instruction in bomb dropping and machine gun fire used by the German Air Force; Article on Early Indian art from the Siamese Jungle - the first exploration of Sri Deva by a European archaeologist; Photos of Indochina's oldest Hindu shrine; Sculptures from Sri Deva; seven photos of Khmer art at Sri Deva - by anti-Indian 12th-century settlers; Madrid's grim ordeal - five graphic photos document 33 air raids in 10 weeks; Noted travel filmmaker Mr. Martin Johnson dies in California air crash; Photo of bombed-out education ministry building in Lisbon; Photo of breached St. Francis levy at Fisk, Missouri; Centrefold illustration of crew of the doomed "Trym" being saved by the "Venus"; Photos of personalities of the week include Brig. Tompkinson, Charles Bryant, M. Navachin, Herr Opsahl of the "Trym", Sir Hamilton Grant, M. Piatakoff, M. Karl Radek, M. Sokolnikoff, Sir George Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Trotsky at Tampico, Mexico, with Mrs. Ribera, wife of the famous Mexican artist; Photos of Taungthu women, of the Burmese Shan states, wearing bath towels as turbans; photos of stranded California miners receiving aid by plane; One-page travel ad for South Africa; Half-page illustrated ad for Bentley cars; One page photo illustrated ad for Hudson's new Terraplane car; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Dramatic color ad inside front cover for Nash Kelvinator shows Allied bombers flying over flaming enemy factories; B.F. Goodrich ad shows New Guinea scene where ammunition is being transported by Jeep; Red Skelton divorce; Brief obituaries for Walter Kidde, Mrs. Bernice Houdini, Daniel M. Casey, John W. Considine, Marjorie, Countess of Warwick, and James T. Powers; Hotel Pennsylvania ad illustration shows businessmen being hauled in the backpacks of unhappy Indian women; Setting up Axis for knockout blow next year; Lots of war coverage; Hitler knows what's coming; U.S. Day Raids and RAF Night Bombings are best use of each force; Why Tunisia must be cleaned out; Stalingrad's Story; Photo of hundreds of German POWs at Stalingrad; Japs Island Network; US Politics; Nice one-page color ad for Good Year shows blimp as watchdog over convoy; Texaco one-page color ad features girl asking her mommy "Who was Hitler?"; Great color one-page ad for United States Steel features large image of soldier pointing rifle at reader; Plane maker Eero Koskinen; "Quit India" Fast by Mahatma Gandhi finds Britain's Foes at Odds - article with photo of Gandhi; Nice centerfold ad for Willys-Overland features great battle image of Jeep; Dr. Robert Ley - photo and brief article; Photo of Danes cheering King Christian X; Specter of Inflation Looms behind 48-hour Week Order; Amazing photos of Liberator bombers being built at Ford's mammoth Willow Run factory; Super one-page color-illustrated Studebaker ad shows Flying Fortress in flight and war truck being unloaded from ship; Women wearing sweaters are sent home from work at the Vought-Sikorsky Co. due to safety concerns - photo shows plastic safety 'bra' being modelled; Iron Fireman ad shows Marshall C. Stone of Pacolet Manufacturing in New Holland, GA; Photo and article on the Archbishop of Canterbury; Nice color ad for the Lockheed P-38 Lightning; Photos and article about Emily Post; Photo of Coast Guard basketball player Dorn; Release of film "The Outlaw" with photo of Jane Russell and Jack Beutel; Nice color ad inside back cover for Bell Aircraft's Airacobra. Covers pulling from staples. Somewhat above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
xx, 364 pages. Two partially-coloured fold-out maps, of Australia and New Zealand, in excellent condition. Chapters include: Australia - General; New South Wales; Victoria; Queensland; South Australia; Western Australia; Australian Aboriginals; The Beginnings of an Australian Literature; Australian Fisheries; Tasmania; The Lost Tasmanian Race; New Zealand; The Maoris; Women of Australasia; British New Guinea; The Islands of the Western Pacific. Dark reddish cloth-covered boards adorned with gilt. Binding sound. Prior owner's name, dated 1911, inside front board. Moderate quanity of light pencil markings, primarily to latter half of book. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1218 pages. Black and white photographic portraits of Lord Strathcona and Sir Sanford Fleming. "A difficult task most creditably performed." - Montreal Star. Sturdily rebound in contemporary burgundy buckram. Wonderful vintage advertisements includsing some for private schools. Relatively few library markings. A quality copy of this excellent reference. Book
Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
Cover illustration of the scoreboard at Maple Leaf (Baseball) Stadium by Duncan Macpherson. Features: Blair Fraser reports on Baghdad and its new Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem; Editorial on Princess Margaret's visit and the (smelly) Don River in Toronto; Let's Stay Off the Moon, by Bertrand Russell; When is Adultery News, by Beverley Baxter; Why Do We Hate The Police? - a Maclean's national survey; Holiday weekend in Montreal- an introduction to the fascinations of the continent's most flavorful city, revisited by novelist Morley Callaghan who once lived, worked and played there; Now even the Canoe is going Modern; What is it about Budgies? - the may soon make dogs man's second-best friend in Canada; The double life of Football's fiercest Coach - Jim Trimble is coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; Women are Equal - Especially Ellen Fairclough, Canada's new Secretary of State; Colour photo sailing-themed Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Colour Sunkist orange juice ad inside front cover; Fairchild Engine and Airplain Corporation ad - 'From Plans to Planes at Wartime Speed; End of Steel - Dawson Creek, B.C. is a hundred boom towns rolled into one, a stampede, a bedlam of activity... on the road to Tokyo - with photos; Movie Boom - war has brought Canadian movie theatres their greatest boom - 180 million customers a year; Story - Sockeye in the River, by Clive Grierson Cornish; Navy Type - Trent Frayne writes about life aboard a Canadian minesweeper - with photos; Lightning - article by William B. Crist; Inside Germany, by Alfred Kantorowicz - article with photos; Story - The Touch of a Vanished Hand, by Laurence Wilson; Sky Troops, by Ronald A. Keith - Canadians who will soon be dropping into Hitler's back yard - with photos; RCAF recruiting ad for women; Nice colour ads for Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Pepsi-Cola (in the old bottle style!); Colour ad for Orange Crush - showing the old brown glass bottle!; Colour GoodYear ad on back cover shows a downed air crew in a life raft being rescued by a plane. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Why are We Afraid to Grow (i.e. why are we afraid of immigration); Mr. Gromyko is welcomed to London, England; The Last Days of Dr. Harry Cassidy, Canada's outstanding authority in the field of social welfare - He knew he would die within three weeks - How he tied together the loose ends of his life - with portrait by Charles Comfort, RCA; She Leads the Housewives Crusade - Dorothy Walton, once the world's best badminton player, is fast becoming our best-known housewife as she spearheads half a million women on in a campaign to make shopping easier, cheaper and better; How To Live Through an Auto Crash - this article could save your life; Father Thomas Coughlin - The Holy Terror from Hamilton - a Maclean's flashback - article with photos of the 1930s radio priest who held millions spellbound; The Hottest Spot in Canada - Point Pelee National Park - article with colour photos; The Happily Married Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario - article with photos; They'll Move Anything - George Hill and Hill the Mover, Canada's largest moving company - article with photos; Leo, the Moth-Eaten Lion - Jack May saved the life of Leo the Lion at Toronto's Riverdale Zoo; What Every Young Bridegroom Should Know - humour by Barry Mather, illustrated by James Hill; Large colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs); Chevrolet ad; Massey-Harris colour-photo ad displays their new Electro-Forging process for making crankshafts; Full-page RCAF Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Household Finance "I Rent Money"; Nice colour half-page ad for Aylmer canned peas; Great vintage ad for Pres-o-lite batteries features black and white photo of Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Ted (Teeder) Kennedy; Bold colour ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario inside back cover; Colour ad for Gyproc on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Chrysler ad inside front cover shows prosperous family and emphasizes imagination and safety; Classic one-page Bell Telephone ad shows pretty switchboard operator holding wire; Kelly Springfield Tire ad shows fashionable sidewalk scene; Nice Hilton ad features The Stevens Hotel in Chicago; Classy one-page color ad for Florsheim two-tone shoes; Nice color Ford car ad presents the (red) 1946 convertible; Intriguing one-page ad by Warner & Swasey called "Did Hitler Win the War?" provides text explaining how a lack of co-operation between France's labor, management and government led to the fall of that nation, thus co-operation is required for victory; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Pan American World Airways ad promotes their worldwide cargo service; Food - scarcer and scarcer; Beautiful photos of the many daughters of Daniel O'Neil in Boston with Mgr. Francis A. Burke; Mr. Truman and the Navy; Great one-page color ad for General Tire features golf theme; How tomorrow's war will be fought; Photos of UN offices in Sperry building and New York World's Fair building; Japanese women vote for first time; China - Civil War; Photos of beatings in Italy; Russian General Vassily D. Sokolovsky; News of the world in Russian; Tractors of gold on the Canadian prairies; Genuinely unique one-page two-color ad entitled "Mad dog!" by the America Fore insurance company shows angry dog and photo of car, the interior of which has been torn to shreds by a dog which was locked in it; Brief obituaries for George Ernest May, Lyle Saxon and Viscount Southwood; Photo of German V-2 rocket on launch pad in White Sands, NM where it wll soon be launched to conduct upper atmosphere research; Nice one-page ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Creighton Bros. leghorn chicken breeders; Article and photo of Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams; Photo of Boston Red Sox Manager Joe Cronin; Tasteful one-page ad for McCall's Magazine features painting by John Koch; Great photo of Arthur Callenstein of Chicago playing marbles; Milller High Life Beer ad shows black many in white jacket holding ttray of beer; Weird Kreml Hair Tonic illustrated ad; A New Socialist International?; and more. Average wear and soiling. Please note: centerfold ad missing, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
35 pages. Features: Why Lorne Greene will stop playing Ben Cartwright (of the Bonanaza TV show) - a singularly fascinating article by Paul Grescoe which peaks on page 4 when Mr. Greene recounts a personal 1939 experience in which not only America's involvement in the coming WWII was predicted, but also how America would come to be the stronghold of Fascism some years later; Coaltown, Canada - Michel, B.C.; They Paddled Across the Prairies - Karl and Alan Friesen paddled from Calgary to Winnipeg; Heart Attack Survivors Take Heart - now heart specialists believe you can and should get out of bed as soon as possible and resume a normal life; General Andrew McNaughton - Part Two - The Happy Time; Ladies of the Cloth - in all of Canada there are about 75 women clerics and sometimes the younger ones feel isolated; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
247 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Glossary. Footnotes. Bibliography/recommended reading list. Index. "Through the history of embroidery - in the very threads of samplers, firescreens, table runners and dress - can be traced another history: the history of women." - from back cover. Discard stamp and small prior owner's name upon first blank leaf. Small address label atop table of contents. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: What we can do about fallout - how to protect yourself from the hottest year for nuclear fallout since testing began - Canada is the hottest country in the world; What is a Screen Gem? - the tv show machine that turns out the lion's share of the canned entertainment on our screens - a profile of the factory and the shrewd men who run it in the United States and Canada; Mordecai Richler reports from the world hockey tournament in Sweden; The cottage industry of Timmins, Ontario - Stealing Gold; Moral Re-Armament/MRA - a private citizen's security check on this 'mysterious organization that claims to be fighting communism'; Mackenzie Porter among the Bunnies - what these lovely young women are like on their own time; Pierre Berton spends election night with the Pearsons. Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows young lady in red gown and young man in clown suite. Some chipping and sunning to edges of front cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Cover photo of Lee Gore. Short Stories: The Prettiest Girls Live in Plum Grove; The Tattooing of Mrs. Joshua Worthington. Articles: Baseball Wakes Up - Now that Jackie Robinson has shown the way, other Negro stars hopefully eye baseball's big time - with photo of Don Newcombe after he became the first Negro pitcher to win a game in organized baseball, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Monty Irvin, Satchel Paige, and Little Leon Day; Blame the Girl - Jerry Geisler became Hollywood's most famous lawyer by convincing juries that a lady's past must be held against her - article with photos of famous female accusers; Atkinson is an Honest Jock - photo-illustrated article on horse jockey Theodore (Teddy) F. Atkinson; How to be a Successful Father - does the American family have too much momma and not enough pop?; I Fought with the Greek Guerillas - photo-illustrated article by Costa Couvaras; Truman's Bright Young Men - Clark Clifford and Gael Sullivan; Low Budget Vacations; America's Heroes Sound Off - with photos of heroes Paul Wiedorder, T.J. Kelley and Arthur Wermuth - what they think of peace two years after victory; Hope for the Hairless - Slav J. Youcheff announces the latest hair-restoring process; Mean Man - Actor James Mason is famous for slapping, caning and throttling women on the screen; Follow My Husband - photo feature on how private detectives are benefitting from California's rigid divorce laws; How to Buy a Suit; Can You Fix a Dog Race?; Photos from the movie "Copacabana"; Salutes to: Senator George D. Aiken, author Howard Armbruster, radio host Jack Barry, and tennis player Jackie Kramer; Salute's National Beauty Contest; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book