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Ray Johnson: Several life sentences helped turn hold-up man into a crime-fighting specialist.
Ray Johnson: Several life sentences helped turn hold-up man into a crime-fighting specialist.

Ray Johnson: Several life sentences helped turn hold-up man into a crime-fighting specialist.

Date10/10/1984
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Object NumberTSPA_0128791F
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Fighting plan: Toby Condiffe, president of the Moore Park Residents' Association, stands in front of the inglewood Dr. home that owners Fay and Jules Loeb want to turn into an art gallery for the University of Toronto. Residents say they want people, not paintings, next door to them.
Goode, Jeff
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Russell, Jim
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Loek, Dick
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Mahler, John
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The look of asbestosis: Dr. Joseph Cowle of the Ontario Department of Health shows how tiny particles of asbestos that have lodged in human lungs cloud x-rays. At left is a normal lung. Several deaths in Metro have been attributed to asbestosis.
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Darrell, Dick
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Jim Gilchrist was a cancer specialist working in London's Victoria Hospital, a job he'd held for 16 years, when he began to feel something was missing in his life
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Mahler, John
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Kidney specialist Dr. Paul Tam vowed to bring a $1 million kidney dialysis unit to Scarborough after Gary Belz died of a heart attack due to kidney failure more than two years ago. Tam said if Belz, then 37, hadn't had to wait a month for dialysis treatment at a downtown hospital, he would still be alive today. And Tam said the dozens of patients who travel downtown for dialysis would have a much, much better quality of life if a unit were Scaborough. But after [Incomplete]
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Mahler, John
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Swindled Couple Get $100 Donation, Mrs, Mary Downey, 81, and her husband Alex, 80, smile happily as she holds a $100 bill donated by Ed Edwards, of Etobicoke, who heard how they had been fleeced of their life savings of $1,000 by a man posing as a bank in
Ross, Fred
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Lawyer's challenge: Ben Johnson's lawyer, Terrence O'Sullivan, claimed several reasons for athlete's positive drug test.
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Loek, Dick
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