Word: elmendorf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Peter Freuchen, 71, Danish adventurer, explorer, $80,000 TV quiz winner (The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge), novelist (Ivalu, Eskimo), autobiographer (It's All Adventure, Vagrant Viking), whose Eskimo-life reporting is considered first-rate popularized anthropology; of a heart attack; at Elmendorf Air Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Irascible, impetuous, cantankerous, big (6 ft. 4 in.) Peter Freuchen, descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live...
...shot. Elmendorf Farm's Prince John, won the world's richest horse race, the $282,370 Garden State at New Jersey's Garden State Park...
...university has spread its influence far beyond its own borders. Last year 1,000 adults took its special nine-week mining course; 1,000 students are now enrolled at its branch community colleges in Anchorage and Ketchikan; 1,100 study at its military branches at Eielson, Ladd and Elmendorf air bases...
...success on the race track, is 890-acre Calumet Farm, whose 60 home-bred stakes winners have made favorite-players happy. On the other side of town are the two Whitney farms, impressive examples of well-heeled private operations which have been family-owned for generations. Adjoining them is Elmendorf Farm, an important breeding establishment since 1871. Sprawling over 500 hilly acres, through woods and along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope...
Blankets & C-Rations. At Anchorage, where thousands of service wives & children are based, the evacuation drill was even more realistic. Buses took women with small babies to Elmendorf Field where Army clerks speedily checked them through to planes. A special train stood by to take other priority passengers to the Army port at Whittier, 60 miles to the southeast. Meanwhile, the bulk of Anchorage's dependents jumped into automobiles and drove a full 50 miles down the road which connects with the Alaska Highway...