Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yukon oil fields...
...served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
...since the U.S. poetry-reading public first met dangerous Dan McGrew, but Writer Robert W. ("Wullie") Service, 76, was rhyming away the same as ever. At his villa on the Riviera, which has served as his headquarters for the past 24 years, the ruddy, grey-haired Bard of the Yukon said that he expects to live a lot longer ("My hobby is longevity") and do a lot more creating
Katherine ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 69, oldtime "Belle of the Yukon," turned up at the 19th International Reunion of Alaskan Sourdoughs sporting a practically undamaged pair of gams but remembering better days: "I was a sunflower, but Lord, the petals are falling fast...
Died. Hartley Clyde Myrick, 65, onetime sourdough who went north at 13, played the piano in Gold Rush saloons, was identified up & down the Yukon with "the kid that handles the music-box"** in Robert W. Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew; of cancer; in Seattle...