Published by Maxwell Macmillan, Toronto, 1993
ISBN 10: 002954209X ISBN 13: 9780029542095
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Canadian Edition. Seventeen-year-old Lee doesn't know much about newspapers - he's only ever read the sports and the funnies. So when Lee lands a job as a copy boy at the Toronto Telegram he enters a whole new world, where panic and energy and controlled mayhem rule the day. The year is 1954, a time when newspapers revelled in sensational stories and the shady means of getting them. Lee, taken on by veteran reporter Jack Murphy, witness Toronto's great news stories of the year, including Marilyn Bell's historic swim across Lake Ontario and the catastrophic Hurricane Hazel, the biggest natural disaster in Toronto's history. Book.