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...brainchild of Robert G. H. Williamson, supervising editor, and Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton, Inuktitut is almost entirely the work of an accomplished, 20-year-old Eskimo girl, Mary Panegoosho, daughter of a respected hunter from Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost point. Despite only three years of formal schooling (fifth to eighth grade in Hamilton, Ont. ), Mary is a skillful artist and writer, a competent self-taught photographer and typist who produced most of the gay line drawings that decorate the magazine, contributed most of the photographs, wrote several of the articles. The only other Inuktitut staffer is Abraham...
...unlikely gimcrack that for years has been the hottest-selling art object in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride...
...reported Point Barrow's Guy Oka-kok, "the Northernmost Correspondent in the World," to his friends in Fairbanks one day last week after a treasured visit from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 49, in 30-below weather. A strong Republican campaigner, Seaton flew into Alaska to help the G.O.P. ticket in the first post-statehood election contests. Wherever he touched down, Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly...
Coach Brown feels that the weather, rather than lack of men or equipment, is the prime factor operating against his crew. He pointed out that Harvard is the northernmost large rowing college, except for Dartmouth...
Unlike the Posters. Life in Hokkaido, the northernmost and second largest island in the Japanese chain, turned out not to be like the posters. In winter the farms of the homesteaders lay under snow that heaped in drifts up to 6 ft. high. In summer the island's rocky, clay-filled soil was stubbornly unproductive. Hokkaido crop yields were only half of those harvested elsewhere in the nation...