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...From Stroudsburg, Pa., Dr. George S. Travis, 50, motored late at night through heavy snow to a gunshot-wounded patient. The car stalled a mile from the patient's house. Dr. Travis proceeded afoot. Sleepy, cold, exhausted, he tottered into a snow bed, died...
...rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...
Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...
...published [TIME, Nov. 4] told me that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set of ends. . . .* We have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale team in action, I am happy to tell you that you will find the players appropriately arrayed in helmets of a glistening white...
While the liquidation and investigation are afoot, Britons outside the mum financial circle are telling what they know about Clarence Charles Hatry...