Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, September (Sept.) 1, 1949 - How They Solved the Northern Lights Mystery / George Young, Yesterday's Hero

Beschreibung

80 pages. Features: William Winter cover art shows Boy Scout campfire lighting; Nice colour Internationa Truck ad inside front cover shows red semi- driving past kids; RCAF one-page recruiting ad; Nostalgic one-page black and white photo ad for Canadian General Electric radios features the model C182, C150P, C66/67 and radio phonograph; Lionel Shapiro and photographer Ken Bell return to the WWII battlefields where they served - major article with many photos, including some before and after shots; The Startling Inside Scientific Story of the fiery Aurora Borealis; Beads to Billions - The Story of the H.B.C. (Hudson's Bay Company), Part II - photo-illustrated article; Spinnaker Spinster (fiction); How to Save Your Husband's Life - famous psychologist George Lawton gives instructions to help wives avoid becoming widows; Leonard Levinson's Impossible Pictures Inc. makes cartoons for 1/3 the usual cost; A Bush Wife's Life for Me - Women in the wilds get treated like duchesses by the grizzled guys of the mining camps, but there's no movie on the corner - with photo of Red Lake country writer Freda Woodhouse washing clothes by hand; George Young - Yesterday's Hero - at 17 Canada's boy wonder, and perhaps the world's greatest swimmer ever, swam his way into a fame that tore his life to shreds - once offered a quarter million dollars for a movie contract he is now penniless - photo-illustrated article; The Wind in the Juniper (fiction); Ten ways to Save Money on Clothes; School and Me, by Ernest Buckler; The Land of Black and White - Alan Paton tells the tragic story of his land, South Africa; Small clipping from ad on page 37 affects ad on page 38; Colour Westinghouse refrigerator centrefold ad; Nice color one-page RCA Victor ad shows their Models 9-W-91, 9JY and 9EY3 phonographs and coloured records; Massey-Harris one-page ad shows European village scene with tractor; Nice colour Hudson car ad; Back cover O'Keefe's Brewing ad features J.S. Hallam illustration of boy on tricycle passing bus. Please note: Very heavy wear to covers which are loose but present and bear multiple clear archival tape patches. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this uncommon issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, September (Sept.) 1, 1949 - How They Solved the Northern Lights Mystery Wrigley Marathon Swimmer Santa Catalina Island California William Winter cover art shows Boy Scout campfire lighting; Nice colour Internation.

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Titel

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, September (Sept.) 1, 1949 - How They Solved the Northern Lights Mystery / George Young, Yesterday's Hero

Verlag

Maclean-Hunter, Toronto

Erscheinungsjahr

1949

Einband

Single Issue Magazine

Illustrator

Illustrated by Winter, William A.; Buckham, Robert M.; Grassick;Richardson, Aileen; Hallam, J.S.

Auflage

First Edition.

Zustand

Fair

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