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...Later, back in civilization, hairdressers were amazed by Connie's hair; unwashed for nearly half a year, it had become gleaming and entirely dandruff-free.) The last 100 miles was a race against time: as they neared the Bering Sea the ice began to creep up on them from the Yukon's freezing banks. In late September they left the river, and Indians guided the frail canoe through the last miles of turgid swampland, to the town of Bethel...
...last persuaded: it passed a law requiring cattle to be fenced. Said Editor Daniel, in quiet triumph: "The farmers are boycotting us now, but they'll get over it." Despite this thumping victory, Miss Edna could not afford to relax. For months she has watched the draft creep up on 50% of her composing-room staff, healthy Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half). Spunky, birdlike, greying Miss Edna pressed her associate editor Beth Williams ("Sister Bessie") Powers and her cook Lilly into composing-room service (see cut) when Frank...
From the Sea of Okhotsk fog and rain creep southward to shroud a long, splintery island hugging Russia's coast. The island is Sakhalin, stern, unfriendly, peopled with grandsons of the criminals Czarist police sent there to rot and die in chains...
...Senate's best exponent of lush oratory, combined with a delicate irony that was so unanswerably pat that it choked his opposition into helpless gurgles of rage. Fortnight ago, in bitter argument with Missouri's Bennett Clark, he cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate him to higher planes of thought." When Clark battled it out with Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler, Homer Bone interrupted: "I have always found them bearing themselves in the brunt of battle with the true courtesy of Arthurian knights...
...faint light of the moon the Americans watched the Japanese creep toward them from the edge of the airstrip. Sometimes Japs crawled to the very edge of the cavalrymen's foxholes before they were killed. One major told me he was going to sleep in his hammock that night and suggested that I do the same thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed...