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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Little, John (Cover); Macpherson, Duncan; Anderson, Don (illustratore). First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Cover art by John Little features Grey Cup final game at Vancouver's Empire Stadium between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes; The revolution that's changing your shopping habits - topsy-turvy trends produced by the frenzied battle for the consumer's dollar; Will they ever beat the Eskimos? - with their baffling split-T the Edmonton Eskimos have won the CFL's Grey Cup twice in a row - the task they pose is not to stop them but to find the ball; We adopted a family of criminals - Rev. Gordon Phillips and Bluebell Stewart Phillips took in prostitutes, murderers aand gunmen, and rejoiced when they went straight; Remember when we raved about the radio? - in the depression thirties, when there was little to laugh about, the comedians on radio convulsed a continent and made the radio in the parlor the centre of every family's life - many great photos; The Secret War of Charles Goodeve, Part Two - How they opened the door for D-day - with photos, including his floating bridge and rocket-propelled grapnel inventions; What would Carrie Nation do?, by Vernon Hockley; Amazing General Motors colour centerfold featuring a kitchen completely finished in pink; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of white water skiing in Austria's Salzach River, a sport (first called skiyaking) invented by Austrian champ Harald Strohmeier; Painter A.Y. Jackson recalls his most memorable meals - one in Tom Thomson's shack on Severn St. in Toronto, the other given by Lord Beaverbrook; Great colour vintage ad for Labatt's Chrystal lager beer shows man relaxing with smoke being served by his wife in front of the tv after he has been cutting grass; Expensive Sunbeam Bread promotion was Canada's biggest; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features old man in white rocking chair. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine, September (Sept.) 1, 1956: The Secret War of Charles Goodeve (Part 2) - How They Opened the Door for D-Day Cover art by John Little features Grey Cup final game at Vancouver's Empire Stadium between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montre.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Macpherson, Duncan (illustratore). First Edition. Features: Nice cover art by Duncan Macpherson features happy trucker setting up his country roadside picnic lunch; Morley Callaghan asks why we shouldn't be like the Americans; Nice colour one-page ad for the 1956 Meteor Rideau Sunliner (grey and yellow); Colour-photo-illustrated article on Canada by Bruce Huchison; Can They Make Joe McCulley a TV Star? - photo-illustrated article; Where We've Gone Wrong on [Canada's National] Defense - article by Lieut.-General Guy Simonds; Will Power Drive Salmon from the Fraser River?; The Race for the love of Mizpah Jenkins - story by Vernon Hockley; How They're Solving the Mystery of Your Memory; What Makes Them Swin the English Channel? - article with photo of Mrs. Willi Croes Van Rijsel covered in grease; Full-page two-colour ad for Allis-Chalmers grader with bucket on back; Nice one-page colour ad for 1956 Pontiac cars; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of Pakistani stake race, with text by John McGarry; Nice one-page colour ad for the Ford Monarch (yellow and black); Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Toronto trucker Francis Wadden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Small tape repair to back cover. A quality example of the nice vintage issue. ; Illustrations; Folio.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Hill, James (Cover Art); Wolff, Werner; Whalley, Peter;Bruce, Robert; Parker, Lew (illustratore). First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for GWG womens' slacks inside front cover; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for GE fridges; Brief write-ups and photos of two very successful Canadians - prospector Franc. Joubin who discovered Uranium at Blind River, and Claude Bissell who will soon become the U of T's youngest ever president; Full-page Royal Bank of Canada promotes their savings and personal chequing accounts; Photo of British Rock 'N' Roll King Tommy Steele; Fantastic colour photo full-page ad for the 1958 Chrysler Windsor; Is There a Drug to Cure Cancer?; The Eisenhower Tragedy - the president is a broken man and the west is leaderless; James Couzens of Chatham - The Canadian Behind Henry Ford - article with photos; Why They Won't Publish Your Song; I Married a Wrestler - by Leah Layton, wife of Lord Athol Layton - article with photos; The Best Fishing Hole in B.C.- short story; Franc. R. Joubin and Dr. Claude Bissell offer their views on what should be done about the education crisis; Are Our Children Growing Up Too Fast?; Don Harron and his losing battle to sidestep stardom - article with six photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Labatt's Pilsener beer; Colour centerfold ad for Canadian Pacific Air, Sea and Land travel services; Superb full-page colour ad for the 1958 Chevrolet's features a black convertible with red interior - what sets this ad apart is the black background - awesome!; CNR rail travel ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows a Bermuda waterfront scene; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 12 April. 1958 Great West Garment Co. Edmonton ad for GWG womens' slacks inside front cover; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for GE fridges; Brief write-ups and photos of two very successful Canadians - prospector Fran.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Macpherson (cover); (illustratore). First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Cover painting by Macpherson shows Aerobee rocket taking off from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, to study the Northern Lights; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover shows the deepest causeway in the world, the Strait of Canso Causeway - 180' deep in the middle; One-page colour-photo ad for GE presents a pink and yellow fridge which is difficult to look at; Two-page colour ad for Shell is nondescript but for the large illustration of a girl high up the the bucket of a tractor as she rescues her cat from a roof; William Mercer says we're going haywire in our security (pension) plans; How Sir Roy Dobson Pushed Canada into the Jet Age - the Managing Director of A.V. Roe Limited in Manchester was the father of the CF-100, and also purchased a major interest in Algoma Steel; For Five Seasons Tanya Moiseiwitsch has dazzled audiences with the dazzling costumes she creates for the Shakespearean festival; How Elgin Armstrong Beats the (Harness) Races; The Garden That Grew From a Gravel Pit - Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens - article with nice colour photos; The Search for Strangler Sweeney (fiction); Prospector Viola MacMillan - super photo-illustrated article on "the most remarkable woman in Canada" who is worth $10 million; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features Jack Richardson and Luigi Tagliapietra engaged in 'water jousting' on their gondolas in Venice; One page ad for International (Harvester) Construction Equipment explains the new concept of 'Sanitary Landfill' and illustrates how their Drott Bullclam (hydraulicall bucket) product is specifically designed for this application; Cinci beer ad features nice colour photo of couple in nautical theme; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photo of the interior of the home of J.L. Silverman of Halifax, Nova Scotia; Nice colour-photo ad for Old Vienna beer features nicely dressed couple in kitchen with bowl of salad and box of bear; Photo ad for Studebaker-Packard features the Champion 4-door sedan; Colour ad for Kingsbeer by Dow, "Canada's Finest Lager"; Colour ad for the Sheraton-Brock Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario; Syl Apps and Frank Buckland answer the questions "Should we import Russian Hockey Players?"; Brief bios with photos of writers who joined Maclean's in the last year - Christina McCall, Shirley Mair and Ken Lefolii; Polysar ad on back cover features colour painting of man replacing another inner tube in one of his car's tires - as he family waits by the side of the road; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Half of centrefold Kodak ad (page 31-32) not included. The other half, page 33, is secured with archival tape, otherwise a sound copy of this wonderful issue.