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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, June 9, 1956 - Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley Explain How Man Will Conquer Mars / Who Really Owns Canada?

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, June 9, 1956 - Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley Explain How Man Will Conquer Mars / Who Really Owns Canada?

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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, June 9, 1956 - Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley Explain How Man Will Conquer Mars / Who Really Owns Canada?

by Newman, Peter C.; Von Braun, Wernher; Ley, Willy; Cziraky, Catherine; Bodsworth, Fred; Sangster, Dorothy; berrill, N.J.; Et al

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Montreal: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers, 1956. Book. Illus. by Woods, Rex (cover); Bonestell, Chesley; Hill, James; Macpherson, Duncan; Taylor, Alex. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 108 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in a growing baby-boomer subdivision; Colour-photo ad for GE kitchen mixers in '3 Festive Colours'; Duplessis is Not Unbeatable; Colour photo ad for Hoover Vacuums features lady in heels, dress and apron happily cleaning her home; One-page colour ad for Dodge features Dodge Mayfair Hardtop with push-button transmission; Who Really Owns Canada? - great article by Peter C. Newman explains how outsiders own most of our oil, mining, pulp and other biggest industries; How Man Will Conquer Mars - the detailed story, complete with timetable, of how the first Mars journey may be carried out - with nine illustrations, eight in colour, by Chesley Bonestell (not in Schuetz); I Married a Count - Catherine Cziraky explains how she married Hungarian Count Laszlo Cziraky; You Don't Have to Panic Over Rabies; The B.C. Coast - with large colour night photo of the intersection of Georgia and Granville in Vancouver; One-page photo of logger (faller) beside gigantic cedars he has taken down on the west coast of Vancouver Island; The Most Baffling Show on Television - Holiday Ranch is Canada's most popular show; You Really Run by Electricity - the electrical system of the human body is so ingenious that it makes man's inventions seem like clumsy toys; The Secret of Stolen Love Letters; I Cry at the Movies; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the Remington 60 de luxe Auto-Home electric shaver shows it at work at home and in a car; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Tappan electric and gas ranges; Fancy half-page ad for Allied Van Lines in bright orange; One-page colour ad for Chevrolet features six of their station wagons for 1956; Classy colour-photo one-page ad for Leonard appliances features glamorous photo of Anne Leonard; Heinz baby food colour-photo ad features mother breastfeeding; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Maxwell House coffee features smiling lady and card game; Classy one-page colour ad for the (yellow) 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport; Trans-Canada Air Lines ad; Colour Molson's Export ad features smiling newspaper man at quitting time; Half-page Olsonite ad features open toilet seat which eerily resembles a crocodile waiting to snap someone's backside!; One-page colour ad for Ford 225 HP V-8 cars (battling a big truck on the highway); 3/4-page photo ad for Electrohome Fans, of Kitchener, Ontario; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank colour-photo ad features funky family checking into Motel; Classic colour O'Keefe's Ale ad features lumberman with peavey jumping over floating logs outside mill; Colour ad features five of the 1956 car models made by Packard - Clipper - Studebaker; R.O.T.P. (Regular Officer Training Plan) ad features smiling young man; Labatt's ad features photo of Arthur G. Turner of Toronto delivering ice(?); Nice colour GWG ad inside back cover features lineman climbing utility pole; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad shows four scenes; and more. Unmarked with average wear and external soiling. A sound vintage copy of this stellar issue..

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Title
Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, June 9, 1956 - Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley Explain How Man Will Conquer Mars / Who Really Owns Canada?
Author
Newman, Peter C.; Von Braun, Wernher; Ley, Willy; Cziraky, Catherine; Bodsworth, Fred; Sangster, Dorothy; berrill, N.J.; Et al
Illustrator
Woods, Rex (cover); Bonestell, Chesley; Hill, James; Macpherson, Duncan; Taylor, Alex
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers
Place of Publication
Montreal
Date Published
1956
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Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

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