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...long ago, even a trickle of heat can turn it to slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look like modernist paintings, their streets slanting sideways and their buildings out of line...
Huge, husky (242 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) Cap Krug looked like an Alaskan himself when he got into a wool shirt. He flew across the Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...
Since 1939, when pioneer Alaskan capitalist Austin Eugene ("Cap") Lathrop organized his Midnight Sun Broadcasting Co. (TIME, June 12, 1939), KFAR has done one of radio's outstanding jobs. To remote Alaska, it has brought news from the outside, glamorized news from the inside. It has also presented one of the best entertainment schedules heard on the continent. By using commercial-free Armed Forces Radio Service records, KFAR offers the pick of U.S. fare without plug-uglies. Its record library gives Alaskans the music they like best: symphonies and operatic arias. Most popular non-musical program: Tundra Topics, full...
Last week an Alaskan with more current information about the territory was in Washington, D.C. Dr. Conrad Earl Albrecht, Alaska's first full-time commissioner of health, had travelled 5,000 miles from Juneau to the nation's capital with an important message. He told it with table-pounding earnestness. His sorry story...
...Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts were good, stoic patients who followed directions well and the Alaskan climate was favorable to the treatment of T.B. If Earl Albrecht could get 1,000 beds, he was confident the disease could be licked...