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...bush the only recreation is hunting and fishing-on special rights given them by the Yukon territorial government. Doughboys hunt to vary meals of corned beef, potatoes, lemonade, carrots, preserves and dried eggs, by adding moose and bear steaks, lake trout, spruce partridge, ptarm'gan, grouse, venison. At Swan Lake, for lack of regular tackle a Signal Corps man made a line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken...
...Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka...
...various parts of his handiwork such symbolic names as Vale of Memory, Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Whispering Pines, Babyland. The result is sensational and Forest Lawn (disguised as "Beverly Pantheon") has achieved the minor immortality of an acid portrait by Aldous Huxley in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...
...Dunster K-32 TRO 7681 Stevens, R. P. '45, Winthrop D-42 ELI 2320 Stone, R. '44, Kirkland N-42 TRO 2477 Strauss, L. H. '45, Lowell G-23 TRO 7734 Sturgis, N. '46 Adams A-26 KIR 7231 Sullivan, G. J. '43, Adams C-57 TRO 0460 Swan, T. '45, Leverett E-22 KIR 1390 Swift, W. '45, Leverett J-16 KIR 2504 T Tate, J. '46, Dunster K-32 TRO 7681 Taylor, C. C. Jr. '43, Dunster E-34 KIR 8352 Taylor, L. S. 2GB, Kirkland D-22 TRO 3439 Taylor, W. R. '43, Eliot...
...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...