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Charlie Chaplin’. and
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doesn't take himself - too. °

- most of his career in Britain
and the United States,. the

Montreal-born. and Hallfax- --

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ati] considers himself very -
much a Canadian — a fact |
he believes: may have been
‘valuable iri his career,
“Being a Canadian: gives

seriously and at times the ~ you that little bit of, detach: -

book gives him more than a

passing resemblance to the - see things more clearly,” he~
‘hapless hero of, Evelyn

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news - storles -and © life
threatening adventures are
stories of being forced at
gunpoint to -eat - greasy
scrapple and eggs by -a

‘crazed man during the Civil,

Rights “Movement; being ©
awakened by thé teleplione

. in the middle of the night,

only to forget where he was
and. what Story he was
‘covering; and an hilarious .

- account of a totally. botched

job of covering Queen

: Elizabeth's visit to the .

Even ‘though Maca
admits, somewhat. wist-

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” doubts hé eduld ba lured ”

back to’the commercial TV-.

networks and the constant
"travel. ‘

“think ’'m probably too.

“ ‘old now for all that rushing

around. Besides... when a *
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around. : ;
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right now. :
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says, In his book, he: claims
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“Over the years, he says he
-has been offered. jobs by
CBC, CTV and Ontario’s
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but adds “each time the bb
Thad seemed just a bit more |
congenial.””

Some: critics have ac-
cused the new CBC-TV.
current affairs show. The
Journal * of ‘aping both —
MacNell’s PBS show: and
_ the later ABC-TV Nightline.

.While he says he. hasn't
” Been enough of The Journal
to make’ a comparison,
MacNeil says the: sritictem
is probably unfair. -:

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their minds when’ they: went
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Nightline) would take a look
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first people to demonstrate
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