Canada at War: ONTARIO: Golden Boy

Harry Falconer McLean was at it again last week. Once more the greying, six-foot, 60-year-old Scots-Canadian whose hobby is largesse and who has been giving money away for ten years had apparently eluded the harassed, grey-haired, unidentified woman who usually accompanies him on trips and tries to head off his eccentric, spur-of-the-moment cash philanthropies.

In Kentville, Nova Scotia (pop. 3,928) he gave Dorothy Stronach, hotel housekeeper, $20, told her: "Every time I meet you, a 20 is yours." He met her once more, shelled out another $20. Two maids who cleaned McLean's...

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