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...replies of a few others were markedly amused and somewhat deprecatory. The reason was discovered before the replies reached the mouth of University Hall's IBM machine: a full page of statistics on Carriers of Intestinal Pathogens in Four Alaskan Communities had been substituted for the usual page two (marital status and reading habits). All in all, a return of only 70 per cent was received...
Down on a Band-Aid. The rescue alert flashed within minutes. Air Forcemen, by now well oriented to the peculiarities of polar geography, knew that they could make a rescue just as fast from Strategic Air Command bases in Newfoundland and Greenland as from Alaskan Command points. From SAC's Thule Air Base in Greenland, cover planes flew across the earth's top to circle Ice Skate and keep in touch lest the camp homer beacon fail. At Harmon A.F.B. in Newfoundland, SAC put on standby two crack C-123J crews who were familiar with ice landings. This...
...most adventurous big-money backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
...High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The old vagabond reporter takes his color cameras north on the trail of the Alaskan gold rush, from placer mining on Porcupine Creek to Jazz Singer Hattie in Juneau's Red Dog Saloon...
...short-wave radio voice belonged to an Alaskan schoolteacher doubling as practical nurse in the remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...