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...General Kepner was air commander at the Bikini atomic tests, more recently has been commander of the Air Force's proving ground at Eglin Field, Florida. In sending him to Alaska, the Defense Department was putting a veteran interceptor on top of the world, along the short Arctic air route to the U.S. from Russia...
Peter W. Rand '51 of Eliot House dropped a message-laden bottle overboard last summer while on a cruise in the Arctic Ocean, and it turned up April 22 on a Scottish beach. Rand received the message and a letter last week from the finder--John MacIntyre of South Uist, Lochboisdale, in the Outer Hebrides...
Commander MacMillan plans another trip to the Arctic this summer to collect specimens for the Peabody Museum and others. First mate Rand will make his third trip, along with Stanton A. Cook '51 and Ian M. White...
Because polio is usually a warm-weather disease of temperate zones, doctors jumped at the chance to study a polio outbreak two winters ago among Eskimos at deep-frozen Chesterfield Inlet, in Canada's Northwest Territories just below the Arctic Circle. One striking fact was soon evident: though infants under three got polio just as older children and adults did, none of the infants suffered the devastating paralytic stage of the disease. And the infants up to three years old, following local Eskimo custom, were still being nursed at their mothers' breasts...
Died. Alfred Julien Lomen, 61, president of the Lomen Commercial Co. of Nome, Alaska, onetime owner with his brothers of the largest reindeer herd in the Territory, Arctic rescue expert (he was the first white man to reach the scene of the 1935 Will Rogers-Wiley Post plane crash); after long illness; in Seattle...