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Since 1935, the Metropolitan General Hospital in Windsor, Ont. has been keeping careful follow-up records on all patients treated for cancer. Main conclusion, as reported by Dr. Norman A. McCormick in the current Canadian Medical Association Journal: "Ample proof that this disease can be cured." Because five symptom-free years are the medical yardstick for cure, the study stops after 1947. Items...
Oldtime Crooner Rudy ("The Vagabond Lover") Vallee, still crying "Heigh-ho, everybody" in the nightclubs, dropped into Port Arthur, Ont. for a one-night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...
...deal. During the Depression he sold radios in northern Ontario, quickly found that in some remote Canadian towns reception was so poor that few people would buy his sets. Thomson knew how to solve that. For $500, he bought his own transmitter, started broadcasting recorded programs from North Bay, Ont. (pop. 15,599). When he moved 230 miles north to Timmins (pop. 28,790) to start another station in 1934, he ended up with a weekly newspaper too, within three years had converted it into a daily and was shopping for more newspapers...
EUGENE LANG Belleville, Ont...
Canada's first big Shakespeare festival, held at Stratford (Ont.), came to an end last week, a thunderous success. Casting up accounts after the final performance, the slightly dazed promoters found that their festival had drawn 53,600 Canadian and U.S. theatergoers to their little farm-area city of 19,000. In their most optimistic moments they had hoped for a 60% capacity attendance; the festival played to 97% of capacity for its entire run. Enthusiastic visitors poured $190,000 through the box office and spent another $1,000,000 in the town...