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...corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...
...Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed by U.S. planes based in the Aleutians...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...
Alaska Airlines (formerly Star Airlines) is still only loosely held together. It was started by an elderly Manhattan industrialist, Raymond W. Marshall, who, seeing the great possibilities in Alaskan aviation, merged four bush-flying lines. As a result, its 30 planes are mostly flying antiques. Passengers often sit astride piles of rawhide and potatoes as the planes snake their way through mountain passes with supplies for isolated villages, mining camps and canneries...
Exploiting new fields in botany along the recently completed 1,500 mile Alaskan Military Highway, two botanical expeditions under the auspices of the University's Arnold Arboretum collected 28,000 specimens, announced Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany and Administrator of the Botanical Collections, in his annual report issued yesterday...