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I'm not a starving writer,' admits Michael bliss, historian and author of Banting, pictured here in the confortable library of his Leaside home
I'm not a starving writer,' admits Michael bliss, historian and author of Banting, pictured here in the confortable library of his Leaside home

I'm not a starving writer,' admits Michael bliss, historian and author of Banting, pictured here in the confortable library of his Leaside home

Date5/11/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: I'm not a starving writer,' admits Michael bliss, historian and author of Banting, pictured here in the confortable library of his Leaside home
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0033197F
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Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
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Image shows a portrait of the comedian.
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Image shows a portrait of a comedian.
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