Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
Cook, too, had his troubles. In December, 1909, the Explorers' Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years in prison. His friends said he was an innocent figurehead who had been deceived by the embezzlers. Three years ago he sued the Encyclopaedia Britannica, two publishers and a writer for "discrediting" his claim to the discovery of the North Pole. To date he has collected nothing...
...West has its Rose Bowl, the South its Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sun Bowl (all played on New Year's Day). Last week Alaska jumped into the bowl business, 38 days early. Juneau citizens staged a Gold Bowl game between the Alaska Sourdoughs and the Baranof Bears, partly for charity, partly to encourage football among Alaskans...
...bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...
...week his 50-year-old wife, his youngest sons, schoolboys of 12 and 14. There this week Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, oldest active bishop in the Anglican communion and one of the great missionaries of his time, celebrates the 44th anniversary of his consecration as Missionary Bishop of Alaska...