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What the hell is all the rush about? I am on holiday and this is an unprecedented intrusion upon my vacation
What the hell is all the rush about? I am on holiday and this is an unprecedented intrusion upon my vacation

What the hell is all the rush about? I am on holiday and this is an unprecedented intrusion upon my vacation

Date12/20/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: What the hell is all the rush about? I am on holiday and this is an unprecedented intrusion upon my vacation. I am going to be back in Toronto on Tuesday. Couldn't he (McMurtry) wait till then?
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0079262F
Postcard in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
"My dear Smith You know that I am already overburdened with work upon what is my nominal holiday"
Approximately 1919
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
4 Mostyn Terrace, Eastbourne; "My dear Smith I hope you are going to have a holiday [...] The day when Holmes will really die will be the day when I think that I am letting him down".
Unknown
'Technology runs in Germany and I knew they'd understand what I was about', But Amanda Lear, who sings these lines from her song I Am A Photograph lik(...)
'Technology runs in Germany and I knew they'd understand what I was about', But Amanda Lear, who sings these lines from her song I Am A Photograph lik(...)
10/5/1978
Yesterday I was an egg, today I am a chiken [sp]; tomorrow I'll be a pie -- aint life hell?
Yesterday I was an egg, today I am a chiken [sp]; tomorrow I'll be a pie -- aint life hell?
1910 circa
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere; "My dear Smith I am sorry Colin Maclean took my article amiss"
January 15, 1897
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith; I am sorry I have bothered you"
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith; I am sorry I have bothered you"
May 15, 1914
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere; "My dear Smith I am sending you "The Story of the Man with the Watches". I think it's a good one."
approximately 1898
Thain. A man who helped rescue a family of three from the Grand River near Cayuga says he can't stop thinking about the incident. It's a strange feeling. Every time I think about it I get this rush, Gordon Thain said in an interview at his Queen St. E. home yesterday. [Incomplete]
Thain. A man who helped rescue a family of three from the Grand River near Cayuga says he can't stop thinking about the incident. It's a strange feeling. Every time I think about it I get this rush, Gordon Thain said in an interview at his Queen St. E. home yesterday. [Incomplete]
6/8/1987
Summer vacation periods are necessary for both students and their teachers, claim two Star readers in the accompanying letters. The holidays are used for almost everything but a rest, they say
Summer vacation periods are necessary for both students and their teachers, claim two Star readers in the accompanying letters. The holidays are used for almost everything but a rest, they say
10/28/1969
After spending 2 1/2 years documenting the spectacular wildlife of the Far North, photographer Stephen Krasemann, right, fears man's intrusion into th(...)
After spending 2 1/2 years documenting the spectacular wildlife of the Far North, photographer Stephen Krasemann, right, fears man's intrusion into th(...)
10/9/1991
Pro and con: Robert Elgie, left, says his bill is aimed at ending ugly labor disputes but Dave Patterson has denounced it as an intrusion into internal union affairs
Pro and con: Robert Elgie, left, says his bill is aimed at ending ugly labor disputes but Dave Patterson has denounced it as an intrusion into internal union affairs
8/1/1978
An intrusion: Conduct of witnesses would be hampered by presence of television
An intrusion: Conduct of witnesses would be hampered by presence of television
2/17/1983