Word: lathrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second forum in the series will belied by the Reverend John H. Lathrop at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Eliot House Senior Common Room...
...Captain Austin Eugene Lathrop, a building contractor turned shipmaster, sailed to Alaska from Puget Sound in the small steam schooner L. J. Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University...
...September, out on the Farm Road that leads from Fairbanks past the University, Cap Lathrop hopes to have in operation the northernmost commercial radio station in the world, and the largest and most powerful (1,000 watts) in Alaska.* Its call letters: KFAR...
Before plunging into the KFAR project, Cap Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska...
These men have the opportunity to join the troupe permanently, with the prospect of larger parts next season, but at present the best extra's part is that of a gloomy individual who carries a bier. Among the extras are: Lathrop M. Forbush '39, Lester D. Berger 40, Arnold W. Frutkin '40, Alvin W. Shutzer '40, Peter H. Solomon '40, Waldo H. Stewart '40, John A. Waldo '40, Norman W. Getsinger '41, Kingdon W. Swayne '41, Richard M. Wagner '41, and William H. Lowe...