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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Where the Action Is | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

¶ 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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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