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...world's fair was born seven years ago when three leading citizens met for drinks at the Washington Athletic Club. Two members of the Chamber of Commerce and a newspaperman convivially agreed that it would be nice for Seattle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million for an opera house, a theater and an exhibition hall. The state put up $10 million more...
...most undergraduates relaxed in warm, sunny climes this summer, a group from the Harvard Mountaineering Club spent 23 days climbing Mt. Logan in the Canadian Yukon amid one of the area's worst storms. The five-member expedition was trapped in 60mile-an-hour blowing snow and sub-zero temperatures but escaped with only a minor case of frostbite to one of the climbers...
...Logan, at 19,850 feet the second highest peak in North America, is part of the St. Elias Range in the Northwest corner of the Canadian Yukon. The group set out to conquer two of the mountain's three peaks--the East Peak and the main central summit...
Llorente came to the U.S. in 1930. He took his three years of theology at St. Mary's College in Kansas, and was ordained a priest in 1934. A year later he was in Alaska. "I heard him when he first came up the Yukon on a boat in the summer of 1935," says Eskimo Trader John Elachik. "He was singing La Paloma so loud we could hear him way up the river. We thought he was drunk...
Sneeze in the Dark. His daily life provides plenty of material-like the story about the time his dog sled plunged through a hole in the Yukon ice. "It was bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began...