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No. 1 Wall Street. The boosterism behind A67 is well founded. Today, despite its century under the American aegis, Alaska's natural resources remain largely untapped. In an 1867 speech supporting the Alaska purchase, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner spoke glowingly of the region's timber and grasslands, furs...
Doing Well. This helped explain how Karafin, on an $11,000 Inquirer salary, could wheel around town in a pair of expensive Buicks, live in a house worth $45,000, buy $20,000 worth of furniture, and install such extras as central air conditioning and a custom-built staircase. And...
Four other portraits offer a comment on justice. A sheriff, a destitute migrant mother, and the wife of a lynching victim surround a rich woman who, wrapped in furs and chins, sits inside her elegant charriage. Of the four pictures, only this one has a name-title. On another wall...
Turning to a glum little boy, one woman asked: "Well, what did you think of it?" Replied he: "Sounded to me like a lot of notes but not much music." "Well," said the woman, gathering her furs in a huff, "sounded to me as if all the bathroom plumbing went...
After a hard day on the slopes, the first order of business is-or ought to be -a good long soak in a hot bath. Hot buttered rum, Glühwein or glogg, and a spicy new potion called the Broken Leg -bourbon, hot apple juice, cinnamon, cloves, raisins and...