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...Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...
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...
...Reuben Bennett D'Aigle, 85, legendary lone-wolf gold prospector who roamed the Canadian North in search of his fortune and always narrowly missed it; of a heart attack; in Scarborough, Ont. On his way to register a claim to gold he discovered in northern Ontario in 1907, "Sourdough" was sidetracked by tales of a silver strike, learned to his sorrow that he had passed up a $500 million gold mine. After years of scouring Labrador (which has remembered him in the names of rivers, lakes and streets), he struck iron ore, but the depression prevented him from mining...
...vacation in Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew...
...bitter North. The mayor of Seattle, in San Francisco for a convention, "did not bother to return home, but wired his resignation." From New York came 500 women, mostly widows, by steamer around the Horn. After a fearsome journey, they reached Seattle broke, their hopes of marrying sourdough millionaires shattered...