Word: nome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard...
...when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...
...meantime Balto, onetime lead dog for Seppala, super-canine transporter of serum to Nome, yawned in durance vile and warm at Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 28). He may have reflected that every dog has his matinée, wondered who was leading them...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...