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...border. Collectively, Canadians travel south of the border some 27 million times a year, and get some 27 million visits by U.S. residents in return. Buffalo TV stations regularly draw bigger audiences in Toronto than does the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Canadian Novelist Hugh (Two Solitudes) MacLennan complained recently that a Canadian writer has to get his book published in New York before his countrymen will...
...drew more mail than anything Maclean's has published in years. Surprisingly, half the letters agreed with Tinker in deploring the growth of such carping anti-Americanism. More support for Tinker came last week in a guest editorial written for Maclean's by Author Hugh (The Precipice) MacLennan. "Mr. Tinker has hit nearly all of us where it hurts," MacLennan wrote. "We're chagrined and a little ashamed of ourselves...
...MacLennan's urbane explanation for Canadians' behavior toward Tinker and for the American's wounded reaction is that both Canada and the U.S. are suffering from neuroses: the Canadian neurosis is a compulsive desire to be noticed and the American neurosis is a compulsive desire to be liked. Thus, self-conscious Canadians belittle and criticize the U.S. in order to build up their own national ego. And Americans, expecting friendship, are hypersensitive to the needling. Only mutual understanding, MacLennan believes, will resolve the problem: "The Canadian and American national neuroses will continue to howl at one another...
Died. The Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, 69, longtime (1921-40) pastor of Hollywood's huge (membership: 6,400) First Presbyterian Church; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Dr. MacLennan hit the headlines briefly in 1948 when he was formally rebuked by the Los Angeles Presbytery for performing the marriage ceremony for thrice-divorced Lana Turner and thrice-divorced Bob Topping, said in his own defense that he was impressed by Lana's "sincerity and depth of feeling...
...said, wakened him one night in a convulsive fit. He strangled her with a stocking. Victim No. 5 was Kathleen Maloney who, he said sadly, demanded money for his attentions to her; No. 6 was Rita Nelson, who was six months pregnant; No. 7 was Hectorina MacLennan, a young Scottish mother...