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...Caro nome, in which she ended with a high trill that floated like a feather across the darkened stage...
North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox), a sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine...
...their way to the Yale meet, the Freshmen defeated the best Dartmouth and Princeton Freshmen teams in recent years. The Indians had the bad luck to be the team participating in the Crimson's first nome meet, and lost by the telling score of 60-26. The Tigers were more fortunate. A somewhat rough flight to Princeton preceded a Freshman victory there by only...
Agony Hour. Alaska is virtually doctorless. In the great land's entire western half (250,000 sq. mi.), only Nome boasts a private practitioner. The job is mainly up to seven public-health physicians, including Dr. Brownlee, at five tiny U.S. hospitals run by the Alaska Native Health Service. They serve only 30,000 people, but visiting patients is usually out of the question. For hours at a time, every night, the "agony hour" radio dialogue goes...
Within moments after the Senate vote, the news flashed 3,500 miles. Scores of homemade 49-star flags broke out across Alaska.* In Skagway, women paraded wearing embroidered badges: "Bigger than Texas, Better than California-God's Country." On the western shores, in Nome and Kotzebue, the populace torched big, bright bonfires that they hoped could be seen across the strait in Siberia. Even the antistatehood Alaskans, mostly in Sitka and the capital city of Juneau, joined in the bell ringing and dancing...