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Among the fortune seekers who swarmed to the Yukon in the 1898 Gold Rush was one Michael Stepovich, out of the Balkans by way of Oregon. He struck it fairly rich. Unlike most sourdoughs, he sank his profits into land investments instead of boozy sprees. Other Alaskans thought he was crazy to pay hard-earned money for wasteland around Fairbanks, but as the mining camp grew into a bustling city, Stepovich grew rich, became known all over the territory as "Wise Mike...
Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough...
...coverage of Canadian news in general. Reporting the west's vast growth of population and industry and the development of its natural resources, Bureau Chief Ogle will work with the 16 of our 35 part-time Canadian correspondents who are scattered through Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and Northwest Territories...
...action (ABC pre-empted only one half-hour show the entire evening). The national chains carried spotty U.N. pickups all evening, but when Secretary Dulles appealed to the world for support, ABC was preoccupied with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing.) And for the most part, both of the nation's biggest networks, which each week toss around gobs of sponsor dough with reckless abandon, carried the U.N. during cheap, second-rate time slots when their affiliates across the country were...
...military service. Perhaps the most heroic image of all is that of towering (6 ft. 4½ in., 240 Ibs.) Paul Sutton, 46, running against Republican William Broomfield, 34, in Michigan's 18th District. For ten years Sutton starred on the radio program Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Even so, he is losing...