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ALASKA A Pole at the Pole? Every child firmly believes that the North Pole is tall, striped like a barber pole, and has a ball on top. Stan Garson, an oil rigger at Alaska's Point Barrow, hated to surrender this fancy. In the long Alaskan days & nights, he got to brooding. "All there is at the North Pole is some latitude and longitude,* he complained. "We really ought to have a pole...
Pert, brown-eyed Joyce Goodman was a WAVE stationed at the San Diego naval base when she met Nolan Holdridge, a parachute rigger, early in 1945. Except for occasional asthma attacks, Joyce was a healthy young woman who rarely missed a day of duty driving a station wagon. While going out with Holdridge, she noticed a red rash on her wrists, but thought little of it. In 1946 they were married...
Ernest W. Rigger, president of the Greek College was present for the ceremony conducted by the Board of Trustoes, a Massachusetts organization authorized under an 1894 charter to give such degrees...
Added taciturn Private Max G. Peterson, former rigger of Marlinton, W.Va.: "The officer commanding my tank got a wound in his head, bandaged it himself and kept going...
Bannon becomes suspicious of a Danish square-rigger, Den Magre Kvind. His suspicions mount when the Daniel finds, in an open boat, three slaughtered Danes whom Holger mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with...