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Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Fisher won the hammer throw with 153 feet 6 1/2 inches, brother Jack, surprisingly, being out of the money. Pete Harwood went up to 12 feet 6 inches to win the pole vault, while Owen Torrey cleared 12 feet, his best mark of the season, to tie with John Barrow of Navy for second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Loses to M.I.T.; Trackmen Wind Up Fifth in Heps; Nine Vanquished by Green | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

Clarence Darrow, dead these eight years, failed for the eighth time to keep an annual appointment. He had promised amateur magician Claude Noble to "manifest himself" if he could. Noble stood on a Chicago bridge from which Barrow's ashes had been scattered, held up a picture, waited for Darrow to knock it out of his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...kitchens, public baths and sports (Gene Tunney did his first boxing in the settlement basement) were added one by one. Over the years, after the soap & water, came the art: a music school, a children's theater, woodcarving, pottery. In 1917 the settlement moved to bigger quarters on Barrow Street. Mrs. Sim agitated for slum clearance, wider streets, parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mrs. Sim & the Neighbors | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...indoctrination and organizing fell to the pigs, who were the cleverest of the farm animals. Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dictatorship of the Animals | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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