Virtue

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, October (Oct) 1, 1955 - Crackdown on Montreal Vice / Connaught Laboratories History

1955 — 100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Joseph's Convent on Toronto's Bay Street, with nuns raking fall leaves; The dream of Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery - his son Julian became an M.P. but son John was hanged for wartime pro-Nazi broadcasts; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for General Motors trucks presents a blue pickup and a red 2-ton stake truck; Vintage one-page photo ad for the Toro "Power Handle which allowed one motor to power numerous yard care attachments; What Virtue Has Done to Montreal - excellent photo-illustrated article discusses how the girls are being chased out of town and the bars being forced to close on time - with photos of Frank Pretula, Louis Greco, Pierre DesMarais, Jean Drapeau, Pax Plante, Armand Courval, and members of the morality squad; The Miracle that began in a Stable - Dr. J.G. Fitzgerald and the history of his Connaught Laboratories which makes vaccines - photo-illustrated article; How to Handle Women; Photo-illustrated article on the unlikeliest couple in show business - George Murray and Shirley Harmer; Will a Machine Ever Take Your Job? - Article on what automation will mean to Canada; The Great Chinese Food Hoax - colour-photo-illustrated article on how Canada's Cantonese cooks are now being recognized for their delicious Chinese dishes, rather than the Canadian food they had been preparing in their cafes; The Great Carlak's Bitter Magic (short story); Life on the Gulf Islands - great photo-illustrated article on the 4,000 Canadians enjoying the dream of living on an island in the Pacific - with photos of Margaret Robinson, George Copeland, Bob Holloman, Derril Georgeson, Winnie Lautmann, Norm Preston, and Mr. and Mrs. A. King; Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River? - Illustrated article on Albert Johnson who shot others before being killed by a posse; How I Made my Killing in the Market - all you need is a few bucks and some 'inside dope'; One-page National Cash Register (NCR) colour ad features lovely redhead; Color ad features the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.; Haig & Haig whisky ad features nice colour photo of Eilean Donan Castle; Sisman Tredders shoe ad features photo and endorsement by Lloyd Percival; Nice one-page colour Sylvania TV ad; Half-page Homelite ad shows large tree being brought down; Unusual one-page colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSB) illustrates how to read a tea cup; Quarter-page Moosehead Pale Ale ad features illustration of moose looking at portaging canoeist; Great one-page illustrated Dunlop Tires ad features photo of hero Mr. Martin Binkle of Kitchener, a driver for the Cope Transport Company who rescued children from a blazing farmhouse on highway 6 near Rockton; Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Wexford, Ontario labourer Frederick Gilbert; Nice one-page two-colour ad for 1955 GMC trucks hilights their all-new V8 engines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book