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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...
Wanted: Beds. When Washington asked a put-up-or-shut-up question (''What is Alaska doing about it?"), Albrecht had a stopper: none-too-wealthy Alaska had voted $250,000, about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...
...Earl Albrecht had a right to talk like a zealot. Like his father, he had trained to be a Moravian missionary, in an evangelical Protestant church which claims to be the only one with more missionaries in the field than members at home. As a college student he accompanied a choir on that most evangelical of instruments, the trombone. In 1935 he went north to Alaska as a doctor...
...quiet, rambling country house near Munich, 76-year-old Major General Professor Dr. Karl Ernst Nikolas Haushofer, Germany's apostle of geopolitics, last week took poison. His wife took poison also, then hanged herself. His epitaph had already been written - by his son, Albrecht, whom Old Haushofer had denounced to the Gestapo for taking part in the July '44 bomb plot against the Führer. Wrote Albrecht shortly before he was executed last year...
...watch. Then stagehands in new blue uniforms (they refused to appear before the Americans in faded ones) changed sets, set up scenery for Les Deux Pigeons in two minutes, 30 seconds. In the lobby at intermission G.I.s talked knowingly of entrechats, and of how Nijinsky must have looked as Albrecht in Giselle. A U.S. newsman, hoping to send home a breezy story about mugs on a night out, stopped 100 soldiers, asked them if this was the first ballet they had ever seen. The condescending reply of G.I. balletomanes: "Are you kiddin...