Jack McClelland died at the age of 81. The legendary promoter of Canadian literature passed away at his Toronto home. Author and broadcaster Pierre Berton was a close friend of McClelland's for 50 years. (A colleague said McClelland had lost his sight and hearing in recent years, and he was very ill. He had a stroke several years before he died.)

Date: 2004-06-14
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 17 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << first of all he's a good books and people either have that other than they don't see the books in it what you knew what a book should be and he was also this quite remarkable prepared to publish books of the new would fail as potentially because he felt they should be published >>

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