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Features: The Battle of the St. Lawrence - for five tragic months of 1942 U-Boats hunted in St. Lawrence waters, scoring 23 kills... Here's a story that's never been told; Straight talk from Mike Pearson - 'we won't be anybody's satellite"; Those Middle-Age Blues - how men can avoid a crackup; Carnival in the Classroom; London Letter - Mid-Atlantic Logbook; Backstage at Ottawa; Beauty Contests are the Bunk - here's the lowdown on the pin-ups - after his 20 years on the judge's bench, Gordon Sinclair confesses it's mostly phoney; Halfbacks, Greenbacks and Red Ink - ledgers, not linemen, rule big league football (photo of Annis Stukus with Al Marshall; Hot-Water Skipper - Captain Norman Reach is at the wheel of the world's greatest fresh-water fleet (Canada Steamship Lines/CSL); I went to a Nudist Camp (a few miles south of Seattle) - in clothes at Camp Forestia, columnist Scott was covered with confusion - the next day he took them both off. Nice colour Coke ad on page 39. Reo Truck ad on page 5. Abundant tears. Some water stains. Reading copy only. Book
56 pages. Features and Articles: Dean Acheson - the Man from Middletown; Gerard Graham Dennis - Canadian criminal; Charlie Monak of Detroit becomes a top man in a Pyramid Friendship Club - the fad that is infecting the nation; Anna Louise Strong; Exposing 14 million people in Russian slave labour camps; Shortage of women in Germany; "Imported Anti-Semetism - Furor over Dickens' Oliver Twist movie keeps it from U.S. screens; Israel chooses Jerusalem for the opening ceremony of its newly elected Constituent Assembly - Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionism's elder statesman, is President; Canada's Baby Bonus; George Drew - new leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Canada; McGill students vote a black girl, Beryl Dickinson-Dash, as their Winter Carnival Queen; Using airplanes to evacuate suffering Eskimos from stormy Somerset Island; Latin American Development; Boxer dog Zazarac Brandy wins dog shows; Leon Birkhead claims 'The Churchman' and its editor Rev. Guy Emery Shipler are involved with at least 25 'Communist front or Communist organizations; Military desire for guided missiles - uninhabited aircraft; Great black and white photo ad for Labatt's; Harvey O. Brooks - writer of the song A Little Bird Told Me; English pianist 'Solomon' comes to Carnegie Hall; Conductor Willem Mengelberg; A.Y.D. - American Youth for Democracy - a renamed version of the Y.C.L. (Young Communist League); 3,610 Chinese university students in the U.S. struggle to pay their bills after the war in their homeland; the FCC takes over a 160-metre amateur band for the use of loran - U.S. Ham Radio operators will end up with more elbow room; Tabloid newspapers; New Hampshire's Senator Charles R. Tobey has guns for Textron President Royal Little after the company wives out 3,500 jobs in Nashua, N.H.; Photo of Duo's 'Flagship' trailer which features a 'flying bridge' at the back; Colour photo ad for John McHale shoes inside back cover. This Canadian edition contains editorial content identical with the U.S. edition except for added Canadian news. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
"In presenting this collection of West Indian calypsos, Mills Music, Inc. is proud to introduce them to the American public. Their effect is that of a fresh breeze from the Caribbean, from whence these melodies originate." - page 2. 32 pages. Charming cover illustration of Leighla Whipper. Includes lyrics, chords and piano sheet music for these songs: Back Down to the Tropics; Land of the Humming Bird; Don't You Say 'No'; Sweethearts; Chinita; A Pretty Girl Will Turn You Anyway But Loose; I'll Have Me Money By Then; In Martinique; Joe; Take Me To the Carnival; Bad Woman; My Mama; Song of the Jumbies; Ou Belle Marie Coolie. Contents clean and unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Contemporary store and price rubber stamps upon front cover. A sound copy of this marvelous WWII-era compilation. Book
52 pages. Features: Napier Moore argues a Canadian health plan won't work; What the Dead Sea Scrolls Mean to the Christian Faith; Remember When the Comics Were Funny? - a look at comic strips in the 1920s; A moving new portrayal of the Nativity story in a CBC half-hour film - many colour photos of the child cast; The West's Happiest Hunting Ground - For one month of the year Brooks, Alberta is a carnival, shooting gallery and crossroads of the rich and famous - all because one resident once brought home a handful of pheasant eggs - article with great photos; How Can Santa Find Me? - an illustrated Christmas story for children; Constance Tomkinson aand her life in the Folies-Bergere - article with photos; *Magnificent* colour photo centrefold ad for the 1957 Buick Super - 2-door Riviera; Nice colour Cadillac ad along the bottoms of pages 50 and 51; Nice Coke ad on back cover show Santa relaxing with a baby (rein)deer at his feet Unmarked. Average wear. A nice vintage issue. Magazine
46 pages. Features: Can Russia Claim the Moon? - There's a red flag waiting for U.S. space men even if they are first on the planet; Classic full-page colour photo ad for Swanson TV Dinners (remember them!?); Crowds adore a Canadian Matadora - Carolyn Hawyard knows and revels in the dangers of the bull ring - article with photos; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau promoting use of the bean; Nice two-page colour photo ad for the various Christie's crackers/snacks; Toronto Restaurant the Gaslight Club employs beautiful female actresses, dancers and models to serve its patrons - article with many great colour photos of Shawna Wong, Agnes Simo, Eunice Beadle, Paula Jarvis, Yvonne Saunders, Lyn Chisham, singer Sonny Caulfield, Colleen Collins, Della Engen, Nina Prodon, Rochelle Ruland, Steffany Conwright, Heide Lamperstorfer, Jacqueline Gould, Paula Jarvis, and Kari Von Kantz; Hockey's Toughest Town - Mixing mayhem and money makes music in Chicago - article with photos in Chicago Stadium; Terror at the Carnival - Consuela Flores saves Randy Moore of Halifax from her 65lb African leopard - article with photos; Home Built on 2,000 Years of History - Michael and Elizabeth Moran of Beach Grove, BC discover native remains when building on their lot - article with photos; Centerfold advertisement for Ronson products; Montreal Lawye H. Carl Goldenberg - article with photos; Smitten with Knittin' - voluntary knitting classes after schooll at Capilano Elementary School in North Vancouver; Nice colour full-page ad for Shulton products; Du Maurier colour ad suggests giving cigarettes for Christmas(!); Cake recipes; Great colour photo and write-up on Montreal Canadiens player Gilles Tremblay; Santa visits Toronto's Firehall No. 7; Nipper comic. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
88 pages. Features: Fantastic fold-out two-panel colour cover photo of the four Richardsons of Regina who are world curling champions; Brief article on how Nanaimo Realty paid its realtors to lose weight - and sales increased!; Nice one-page black and white Volkswagen photo ad entitled "Who backs up the Volkswagen?"; Nice one-page colour photo ad for Florida orange juice shows smiling girl wearing white ear muffs; What Winter Does to Canada - and vice versa; What to wear to a Fashion Opening - photo-illustrated article; Duel in the Kitchen (fiction); The Return of the Winter Carnivals; The Simple Joys of Camping in a Snowdrift; Hockey Isn't As Rough as it Used to Be - Part 1 of Jack Adams' "My 43 Years in Hockey" - photo-illustrated article (with large photo of Howie Meeker pounding a limp Canadien); The Second Splendid Discovery of Spices; How to Gain Entree to the Social Pages; Canada's world champions of Curling - Ernie Richardson and the Richardsons of Regina; Population Explosion on the Ski Slopes; Skier's Dream - two-page colour-photo-illustrated brief article with two maps describe how Franz Wilhelmsen and the Garibaldi Olympic Committee seek to have the massive potential of Whistler Mountain developed for the Winter Olympics of 1968; Best and Worst Movies of 1960; Escape to the Sun - Robert Thomas Allen's road trip from California to Florida; Seagrams ad features colour painting of winter carnival by Henry Simpkins; Large colour ad for Apollo Beach waterfront real estate development near Tampa; Canadian Club colour-photo one-page ad features Walter Gonnason falling into an ice crevasse on Mount Victoria Glacier in Alberta; Why color TV isn't here yet - and when it may be; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features skating couple; and more. Discrete six-inch clear archival tape repair to bottom left corner of front cover, otherwise unmmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
