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Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 25, son of the late Major Kermit Roosevelt; and Nancy Thayer, 24, socialite translator (of foreign broadcasts for FCC); in Manhattan. Roosevelt, whose father Kermit died on Alaskan duty last June, is on leave after a year's service in the South Pacific...
...average U.S. citizen, air and sea power are the weapons to be used to defeat Japan. Last week an infantryman gave a different opinion. Burly Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., head of the Army's new Alaskan Department, told reporters that he was for land occupation of the Pacific enemy's homeland...
With the sea lanes to southern Alaskan ports open the year round, the southern half of The Road may not see much through traffic. Greyhound busses, operated for the Northwest Service Command, now run the thousand miles from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse, average 22 m.p.h. Trucks will continue to supply the big airport at Watson Lake, even with the pipeline punched through from Whitehorse-location of the refinery for oil from Norman Wells (TIME, Oct. 4). But no postwar commercial or tourist development now in sight will justify maintenance of this stretch of The Road...
Roused from their museums, several eminent archeologists scurried to the rock shelter. Copenhagen's Helge Larsen, now a curator at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, was heard to observe that the 17th-Century Indians had a lower culture than did the Alaskan Eskimos whose remains he had just been studying. His colleague, Anthropologist Junius B. Bird, was pleased that the girls had made good use of the lectures they had heard...
From blood-soaked Attu in the western Aleutians to brisk, modern Anchorage on the Alaskan mainland is about 1,500 miles in space but a universe in atmosphere...