Author: JACKSON, GILBERT; BEAMISH, ROYD E.; BRUCE, LINDA; HEWELCKE, GEOFFREY; HOOPER, DUNCAN; STEPHENSON, BILL; LINDLEY, E.K.; HUGHES, JANE; STURSBERG, PETER; FOSTER, ELIZABETH; RYDBERG, ERNIE; MAYSE, ARTHUR; CAMPBELL, HELEN
Title: Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 August 1945, Vol. 58, No. 15: The Happy Gang! / This Is Berlin
Description: Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, 1945. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Norris; Grassick; Jousset, Albert; Greene, Evan;. Features: Humorous cover art by Norris shows bored boy in church; Can We All Get Jobs? - an argument to boost exports; Home-Front Booby Traps - returning servicemen with their war earnings must beware sharpsters targeting their funds; It's The Happy Gang! - They boast over a million weekly radio listeners; Our Crazy Clothes - Eminent Toronto doctor claims never have so many worn so much - or so little - in the wrong places; This is Berlin - The crippled city struggles to its feet; Bug Busters - DDT and dimethyl phthalate; London Letter - Who Got Slapped?; Washington Memo - approval of the United Nations Charter; Backstage at Ottawa - Dominion-Provincial talks next month; Get in the Swim - photo-illustrated article on aquabats/ornamental swimmers/synchronized swimmers, including nine-time champion Doris Geldard of Toronto; It Happened in Norway - Paper shoes, paper clothes, no meat, but even traitor Quisling will get a fair trial; Turn Again Home (short story); A Date for Agnes (short story); Russian Lady (short story); Canny Canning; and more. Nice ads for: Fleet Aircraft; Moore Business Forms, Koroseal by B.F. Goodrich, Miracle Whip, White Rose petroleum products, Canada Dry sparking water, Absorbine Jr, John Labbatt Ltd, Kreml Hair Tonic, Arrid deodorant (featuring photo of Jessica Dragonette), Hiram Walker & Sons, Limited ("Serving the United Nations with War Alcohol"); Pep O Mint Life Savers; Eveready Flashlight Batteries (featuring photo of young radio singer Cleone Duncan of Calgary); Vitalis; Eversharp Red Top Lead (fantastic colour ad on back cover); Wonderful colour ad inside back cover by the Blue Top Brewing Company of Kitchener encourages readers to support Red Cross Blood Clinics to help soldiers. 52 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Small perforations in front cover to right of title. Several peripheral openings. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine 1 August 1945, Bert Pearl, Blaine Mathe, Eddie Allen, Cliff McKay, George Temple, Jimmy Namaro, Doris Geldard, Marnie Delaney, Jean Mowat, bored boy in church, Norris, post-war employment, export strategy, consumer awareness; shysters,. Good .

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