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...Governor. To Alaskans who pine for the old order, and to those who long for something new, one man symbolizes the Territory's turbulent stirrings. Throughout his 7½ years in office, chunky, jug-eared Dr. Ernest Gruening, 60, Alaska's New Dealish Territorial Governor, has been an advocate of change and a figure of controversy. He has been during most of his career...
With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...program of dancing and drumbeating, looked rather like a man who would have felt more at home in a 52nd Street nightclub. At one point he abruptly walked out on a hill woman who was trying to entertain him with a peasant love song, and stood moodily under a pine tree, twirling his waxed mustache until she was removed...
...peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
Praised from all sides by his banqueting flock: roly-poly old (seventyish) Father Divine, who celebrated his year-old marriage to blonde Edna Rose Ritchings, 22, with a medium-staggering dinner in Pine Brook, NJ. Over the happy couple gleamed a purple neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Palace Mission." The bride wore a white gown and gold slippers. Fifty girls in uniforms marked with Vs (for Virtue, Victory and Virginity) choired the host's praises. The guests sat down in early afternoon to a menu featuring 60 kinds of meat, 54 vegetables, 23 salads, eleven...