Word: dogsledding
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Almost any sport is exciting if understood from the sportsman's point of view. Wide World has proved this with programs on dogsled races, judo and Australian-rules football. The show's interests are only partly eccentric, however; most of its attention goes to the American standards-football...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and...
Any viewer who does not recognize that the sennets and flourishes here mean Montague and Capulet is a dull fellow indeed. Sure enough, while Burton becomes a millionaire cannery owner and his blood enemy Ryan is transformed into a member of the Alaska legislature who crusades for statehood, their children...
Died. The Rev. Thomas Cunningham, 53, weather-beaten Jesuit priest for 24 years in arctic Alaska, who traveled on dogsled with chalice and folded altar to his far-flung parishioners, translated Catholic hymns into the Eskimo tongue; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska. Father Tom was guide in...
¶ In Ottawa, Quebec City's Narcisse Dompierre and his eight crossbred dogs mushed 66 miles over the ice-crusted international dog-derby course, covered the distance in 5 hr. 33 min. 58 sec., to take the world's dogsled racing championship.