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During World War II, the old gold-rush town of Nome, Alaska had echoed to the roar of aircraft and bulldozers, the bustle of 10,000 U.S. troops. But last week, though gold dredges still clanked on its outskirts, the dusty, ramshackle little subarctic settlement looked almost lifeless again. At the Air Force's Marks Field, 500 miles beyond the main U.S. defense lines, trucks and crates stood ready for the barges which would carry them south to Anchorage. As the jet plane flies, Siberian airfields were only half an hour away; by the time next month...
Died. Alfred Julien Lomen, 61, president of the Lomen Commercial Co. of Nome, Alaska, onetime owner with his brothers of the largest reindeer herd in the Territory, Arctic rescue expert (he was the first white man to reach the scene of the 1935 Will Rogers-Wiley Post plane crash); after long illness; in Seattle...
...Carnegie's big stage, Anna Maria had gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...
...good while. In 1943 her father, now a cellist with Bologna's Teatro Comunale, then director of a music conservatory on the beleaguered island of Rhodes, wanted very much to get his family back to Italy; six-year-old Anna cinched the airplane priority by piping Caro Nome for the island's military governor. At war's end she got showers of caramels from American G.I.s by warbling Gounod's Ave Maria...
Troxell shows Matt his secret-a pressurized "pod" cockpit for jet planes which can be shot upward to land by parachute and save distressed pilots. While Matt is making himself a cool $25,000 piloting a jet from Nome over the Pole to Washington, Troxell dies when the "pod" fails in a premature test. Miss Parker accuses Matt of responsibility for this accident, warning that Troxell's ghost would come between them if they contemplated a life together. The nest day, Matt lands safely in the "pod" as his flaming plane crashes. Miss Parker rushes to him, and damn...