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...back in TIME'S news bureau last week after his tenth visit to Canadian bureaus and correspondents in three years. This time White traveled 10,000 miles in four weeks, zigzagging across the country from Quebec to Vancouver, from Churchill on Hudson Bay to Whitehorse in the Yukon. His purpose: to extend TIME'S coverage of that booming nation...
...officials in New Delhi to arrange for him "to shoot a moose in Canada." Though having no reason to doubt the Maharajah's aim. the diplomats carefully replied that they would try to arrange for him to shoot "at" a moose. Last week five Canadian provinces and the Yukon territory were trying to lure the big-spending Maharajah to their respective hunting grounds. Of these, the Yukon issued a most sporting challenge to him to get there next month. Boasted a Yukon game official: "As the rutting season generally starts about the loth of September, the bull moose will...
Outwardly, Len Hall seems to thrive on his hectic regimen-and there is little doubt that he relishes his work. His geniality has not rubbed off under the stress. His singing and his original songs (sample title: The Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree...
...last week to launch the biggest arctic defense project the U.S. and Canada have yet undertaken: construction of the Distant Early Warning line (DEW). When the system is finished in about two years, its radar and other detection devices will keep around-the-clock alert from the Yukon to Greenland against intruding Soviet aircraft...
...when he was 27, Neuberger decided to get into active politics; he ran successfully for the state legislature as Democrat. About the same time he met Maurine Brown, a schoolteacher and fellow Democrat. Gradually the romance flowered and after the war (which Neuberger spent as a captain in the Yukon and the Pentagon) Dick and Maurine were married in Missoula, Mont. Dick developed a bad cold, then flu, and the honeymoon had to be postponed for months...