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...Nome. Jimmy Doolittle was born at Alameda, Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold. Now a solid five feet, five inches of lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...
...This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive; That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive." -Robert W. Service...
...briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang the marching song of the road: Squaws along the Yukon Are Good Enough...
...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...
...Bush Pilot Les Cook's seaplane, watched the men slogging it through. He said little, eyeing the tremendous job, but every mucker and cat driver knew the general was on the job. "A tough guy, but square," they said. "A regular guy too. He sure likes that Yukon chicken...