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Northwest Passengers. The St. Roch picked up some passengers on the way. She ferried an Eskimo family from Baffin Island to Herschel. Island, not far from the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Mother, father, grandmother, five children and 17 dogs insisted on staying topside, pitched their pup tent on the open deck...
...gentle hillside overlooking the beachhead the soldiers helped the natives. Pup tents and tarpaulins kept off tropical rains until the engineers could build wooden buildings. Field kitchens served good, hot food. Pretty girls, wearing pink, mauve and yellow pajama suits, flirted with the soldiers. All the natives carried the few belongings they had managed to save-cooking utensils, extra clothing, baskets and mats...
...third try. But this time she faced four opponents, among them Congressman James William Fulbright, who is young (39), well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
...they still held great enclaves of territory within the Jap lines, thwarted pup pet governments, spiked Japan's "co-prosperity" plans...
...Suddenly we bolted forward. The pup-pup-pup of 20-mm. guns on the landing barges sounded like an irritable Fourth of July. Leathery men, with their garishly daubed faces, clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead...