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...fellowships available to provide one for every 20 students at a total cost of more than $36 million a year. But, says the report, too many of the scholarships are arbitrarily limited. Examples: scholar, ships for 1) a descendant of a Confederate soldier, 2) a descendant of an Alaskan pioneer, 3) a student surnamed Stanley, 4) a Negro preparing to be a missionary in West Africa...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
...student board of governors, Faunce House contains a mammoth stuffed Alaskan Brown bear, a fully equipped theatre, and practically all the undergraduate student activities' offices. It sponsors dances almost every week and operates fountain service and a television room...
ALASKA A Pole at the Pole? Every child firmly believes that the North Pole is tall, striped like a barber pole, and has a ball on top. Stan Garson, an oil rigger at Alaska's Point Barrow, hated to surrender this fancy. In the long Alaskan days & nights, he got to brooding. "All there is at the North Pole is some latitude and longitude,* he complained. "We really ought to have a pole...
...North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which were filled with long-range gas tanks. But word got around. A Fairbanks radio commentator known as "North Pole Nelly" suggested that Santa Claus letters from Alaskan kids could be tossed out with the pole. Air Force wives were enthusiastic. Even General Smith's wife pleaded for Stan. But the general still said...