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Master Mariner Henry Asbjorn Larsen knew then that he had turned Point Barrow into the Bering Sea. He knew that he had done what no other man had done: navigated the legendary Northwest Passage from west to east and back again. Last week Staff Sergeant Larsen piloted the weather-beaten 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship, St. Roch, into Vancouver Harbor. She was just 86 days out of Halifax, had sailed on a 7,500-mile trip around the top of North America...
...waited in our stuffy compartment-a middle-aged U.S. captain, a clean-cut colonel, Graham Barrow of Reuters and I-and were thoroughly miserable. Peddlers were hawking cucumbers, wheat cakes and tea to the Chinese soldiers jammed on flatcars and boxcars. Up front the tired locomotive leaked steam at the joints while soldiers loaded the train with supplies -chickens, pigs, a couple of fresh red and white slabs of meat crusted with flies. Finally the train lurched sorrowfully out in the heat up the line to the railhead...
...dawn when Barrow and I joined the troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, in Eng land on a camp-tour of exhibition boxing matches, had his mahogany-carved features measured for wax by London's Bernard Tussaud, of the great French wax-figure family...
...finest composers and singers of Negro music in the U.S. is the wife of a Lynchburg, Va. overall manufacturer. Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood. But when she cuts loose on a blues or a "shoutin' " spiritual, she gives the effect of a New Orleans barrelhouse contralto...