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...influenced "by a spirit of anti-Americanism or of Canadian ultranationalism," and has no designs against freedom of the press. But it proposes, by rejuggling advertising rates and other punitive devices, to end the great popularity in Canada of two U.S. magazines in particular-TIME and the Reader's Digest...
...Another reader reported that Sanford's Xit, an ink eradicator, was also fine for removing banana-leaf stains, a common island washday problem. When this intelligence, duly confirmed by a home test, appeared in "Readers' Exchange," it generated such a demand that the U.S. manufacturer had to fly in an emergency planeload-which vanished in a day. So many similar hints poured in ("For those who have no dustpan. Wet the edge of a newspaper. Place it on the floor and sweep residue onto this"), that Columnist Heloise soon had a reputation as a household authority...
...Poetry readings in air-conditioned Lamont at 4 p.m. Wednesdays will be by Sean O'Criadain (July 12); Katherine Hoskins (July 26); Arthur Freeman (August 2); and William Alfred (August 9). The July 19 reader will be announced later...
...TIME'S term was 150,000 "preparations," not prescription drugs. Reader Smith is correct in saying that this figure includes other drug store merchandise. However, the fact remains that the majority of the items involved are drugs in their many forms...
Vampire for Hire. Merely to contemplate what Yeats seriously believed in is enough to stagger the modern reader. He had, or vowed he had, complete faith in ghosts, fairies, magic, table rapping and spiritualism. He attended seances religiously, and once claimed to have seen a man in black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy...