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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still more exclusive back-patting travel group is the Kee Club, named after the mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: Frost Snorters | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Kee Club was founded last winter in a wood-and-tar-paper barracks of the U.S. Army's Northwest Service Command at Whitehorse by officers and civilian contractors who had just returned from a particularly chilly trip to Skagway. Its membership today totals only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: Frost Snorters | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Robert Kagan '44, Roland Kahn '43, Brian Kiely '43, Charles E. Kitchen '42, Marvin A. Klemes '42, Leif L. '42, Robert A. Koch '44, Robert W. Komer '42, Freeman Fu-Chang Kee '42, Herbert J. Kramer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Awards 115 Honorary Scholarships | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

Steinkjer Stain'-kee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY-DENMARK: Hawkkun's Norgah | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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