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...contributed $5,000 to help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general himself at the controls, stopped at Labrador and Greenland en route to Thule (700 miles from the North Pole) to deliver Christmas Day sermons...
...nation in which the crime is committed can hardly exercise effective jurisdiction even if it has the apparent right. And how, if not by the U.S. military, can an armed forces civilian dependent or employee be tried for a crime committed at some such remote outpost as Thule in Greenland, where the Danish government holds title but has none of the local machinery for exercising judicial control...
...range is not long enough to carry TV programs across the Atlantic in one hop, but relay stations using Greenland and Iceland as stepping stones can do the trick. Other continents could be reached in the same way without too much difficulty. TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont stated at the conference that there is now no electronic reason why nearly all the world should not watch the same TV program at the same time...
Died. Ootah, eightyish, last of the four Eskimos who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their history-making trek to the North Pole in 1909; of old age; near Thule, Greenland. A sturdy, 34-year-old hunter when he served with Peary, Ootah (also known as Odaq) was called "Peary's Iron Man," remarked of the journey back from the Pole: "The Devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily...
...picture begins, is a $70,000 third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is called back into the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel and assigned to SAC. He hates it at first, but he takes his lumps in the B-36s (including a crash in Greenland at 40° below), goes on to get his kicks from the world's fastest (more than 600 m.p.h.) operational jet bombers, the B-47s. By the time his tour is up, he is ready to sign on with the Air Force as a professional...