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...since the U.S. poetry-reading public first met dangerous Dan McGrew, but Writer Robert W. ("Wullie") Service, 76, was rhyming away the same as ever. At his villa on the Riviera, which has served as his headquarters for the past 24 years, the ruddy, grey-haired Bard of the Yukon said that he expects to live a lot longer ("My hobby is longevity") and do a lot more creating
Katherine ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 69, oldtime "Belle of the Yukon," turned up at the 19th International Reunion of Alaskan Sourdoughs sporting a practically undamaged pair of gams but remembering better days: "I was a sunflower, but Lord, the petals are falling fast...
Died. Hartley Clyde Myrick, 65, onetime sourdough who went north at 13, played the piano in Gold Rush saloons, was identified up & down the Yukon with "the kid that handles the music-box"** in Robert W. Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew; of cancer; in Seattle...
Exercise Sweetbriar was a test to determine whether, in spite of all the known difficulties, men & machines could fight a war in the Arctic. A Canadian combat team was sent north from Whitehorse in the Yukon. An "aggressor force" of U.S. troops from the Alaska Command headed south. Later, a U.S. combat team, brought in from Colorado, went up the highway to reinforce the Canadian defenders. Referees ordered attacks, withdrawals and flanking movements and directed operations of U.S. and Canadian aircraft...
...eating eight boxes of Quaker Puffed Rice, one acquires 59 models of dogsleds, beavers, bunkhouses, river boats, and other scenery along the Yukon river. "It goes over well with the housewives," one cereal representative says, "--keeps the kids busy on a stormy...