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...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...
...Alaskan Mother...
...Arctic plain in north Asia or America. Author Earl Rossman of Black Sunlight (1926) mentions that the last migration of the Alaskan lemmings (Lemmus migripen) occurred...