Word: elk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night United's flight No. 14, Denver-bound from Boise, Idaho, vanished into the stormy dark over Wyoming. Next day, search-plane pilots glimpsed a ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...
...campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed to Fort Benton, Mont., 3,575 miles from salt water. (Round trip fare between St. Louis and Fort Benton was $300; the menu included smoked buffalo tongue, bear and elk; profits were as high as $40,000 a single voyage; the captains got $1,200 a month...
...Word & a Blow. In Gallup, N.M., Hotel Clerk Don Collins saw an elk's antlers through the window, grabbed his pistol, fired twice, shouted "I got him!"; rushed outside to find that he had shot the hotel's stuffed elk, de-mothing in the sunshine...
...Navy Department's Elk Hills oil deal, through which valuable Government oil lands were to be "given away" to Standard Oil of California...
Author Hecht begins by explaining that, as a boy (he was raised in New York City and Racine, Wis.), he didn't know that anti-Semitism existed. His Russian-Jewish father was a passionately Americanized Elk, Knight of Pythias, Mason, Modern Woodsman and Loyal Moose. Later he met Jewish writers. But, like himself, they were "Semites far away from Semitism . . . whose only synagogue was Broadway." When he became famous, Ben was outraged if friends mentioned antiSemitism. "I said that it was not Jews who were being discriminated against but obviously individuals too ill-favored for social appeal." Ben filled...