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Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Banff tea house survives roaring avalanche (ad); Leon Koerner's one-man giveaway program - Canada's happiest spender is this Czech millionaire who arrived here 17 years ago; A blueprint to stop our cities' decay - one in every 8 Canadian homes is slowly falling apart, soon to become part of a slum with its by-products of disease and distress - here's what Baltimore, Maryland found; Can science beat the virus diseases?; We're wasting millions on an obsolete air force - Guy Simonds charges that in this atomic age of guided missiles we're still committed to a costly, outdated concept of military strategy based on the airplane; We gambled our love on freedom - James Pegg, a British soldier, met Olga, a Ukrainian slave worker in a German prison camp - they had to choose. stay and be parted, or escape together into unknown dangers; The town that wants to stay old fashioned - Niagara-on-the-Lake; The secondhand love letter, by Edward Kaylin; The private lives of Byng Whitteker; Throw out our cruel divorce law - Kent Power, QC. Nice colour Chevrolet ad on page 5. Front cover heavily torn with chunks missing - it illustrated the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Colour Coke ad on back cover.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine, 4 August 1956 Banff tea house survives roaring avalanche; Leon Koerner's one-man giveaway program - Canada's happiest spender is this Czech millionaire who arrived here 17 years ago; A blueprint to stop our cities' decay - one in eve.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Macpherson, Duncan (illustrator). 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.