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...north engineers, with equipment from the Alaska coast, hit troubles of their own. The cats, seeking a roadbed, tore off the top moss, exposed sheer blue ice. Sun-melted ice sucked down the roadway. The engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused 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...
...Printing plates made of a light strong plastic, to replace ten times their weight in metallic stereotypes and electrotypes, are announced by Theodore Moss, Inc. The master plate is still made of metal but any number of duplicate plates can be made by molding under pressure. The inked impression is sharp and accurate even for fine half-tones, but for direct printing the plastic plates do not have the endurance of metal plates...
...tainted twenties and thirties; complete emancipation appears to lie somewhere in the far distance if we take the six poems in this issue as examples. Lawrence Olson's "Poem" is technically excellent but completely dependent on T. S. Eliot, even to phrasing and imagery. "The Zoo" by Howard Moss is another example: there are echoes of Dylan Thomas and Auden throughout it. These are both fine journeyman achievements; not as much can be said for John Crockett's "Elegy," deeply ingrained in the over-plushed tradition of last year's Advocate poets. Next to Crockett's poem, "Dance" by Paul...
Thousands of years of happy reign be thine; Rule on, my lord, till what are pebbles now, By age united to mighty rocks shall grow, Whose venerable sides the moss doth line...
...alma mater's well-timed slap-stick comedy technique to musical comedy, the movies, and radio. With such a record to its credit, it is easy to see that there's more to burlesque than meets the eye. We hope the Gaiety Theatre wins a hearing and defeats Commissioner Moss's ill-timed desire to shut down such solid senders of entertainment...