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...Anna Ellen was born in Alaska. Through the years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome daughter to play...
Nowhere to Go. This year Dr. Good has nowhere to go. The Cheechako bobs at a Seattle dock, where Anna, now married to a Naval officer, keeps an eye on her. Dr. and Mrs. Good live in a bungalow near the sea in Sunset Beach, in Southern California, quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed...
...Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus...
...home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits, and to school the cheechako (tenderfoot) in the art of mining. It will broadcast four to six news periods...