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...roll call on the Alaska statehood bill began on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a shy, round-faced man in the press gallery hurriedly placed a long-distance call. His party was 3,300 miles away: the daily News-Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska. In his flat monotone, Publisher Charles Willis ("Bill") Snedden pridefully described his tory in the making to Managing Editor George Sundborg...
...last pages of a special four-color, 40-page issue. He hustled 2,000 copies to nearby Ladd Air Force Base, where a B-47 was about to take off for Washington. By lunch time next day, every Congressman and Senator had a copy of Snedden's News-Miner headlined: CONGRESS APPROVES ALASKA STATEHOOD...
...Northwest, he learned the backshop trades of the news business, mastered the Linotype when he was 14, developed into a skilled doctor of slumping papers, and, incidentally, made a pile in real estate. When he went up to Fairbanks in 1950 to diagnose what ailed the sick News-Miner of Austin ("Cap") Lathrop, Snedden was convinced that Alaska should not seek statehood...
True or not, there is plenty of pressure from all sides. London's Economist calls for a 300% hike in the price of gold to bring it in line with other increases, and every miner hopes for a price boost to pay rising costs and improve profits. A more important argument for a higher gold price is that it will help foreign trade. Financial men argue that the world simply does not have enough gold. South Africa's W. J. Busschau, manager of the New Consolidated Gold Fields, Ltd. and one of the world's leading gold...
Victor Sassoon's 18-to-1 shot, Hard Ridden, win the 179th running of the Derby Stakes while the Queen's horse, Miner's Lamp, trailed in fifth...