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North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Death in the Arctic | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...bird," the Eskimo persisted. "Smashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Death in the Arctic | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...Japan, sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay. One evening last week Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, embarked at Southampton, sailed down the Solent. In Copenhagen Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homing Diplomats | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...advent of Repeal a song title, told him to write a waltz to it. Metz went home, scratched out a tune on his violin. Last week his waltz, There's A Secret in My Heart, was publicly sung for the first time by Dale Wimbrow on the Eskimo Pie program over the NBC Blue Network. Theodore Metz was introduced to the radio audience. His latest song turned out to be "corny," smooth, banal. Publisher Marks predicted success for it. But many a kindly listener preferred to like it because it was written by the old man who, nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Ragtimer | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

Measles, to Eskimos a strange and fatal disease, killed 50% of the natives at Point Barrow, on Alaska's Arctic Ocean edge 30 years ago. Last week influenza demonstrated that the years of white men's invasion have not inured Eskimos to white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coffins for 13 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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