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...Author, Born in Moscow in 1899 Author Leonov comes of peasant stock living in the rural, backwoods province of Kaluga. His father was a self-taught poet, later a journalist, exiled to Archangel under the Tsar. Leonid graduated from the Third Moscow Gymnasium in 1918, was refused admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet...
...Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...
...Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number of U. S. amateurs, notably Artist Rockwell Kent, are heading for convenient subArctic regions. For the effete, the Soviet Government has organized a tour this summer aboard the icebreaker Maligin from Archangel to Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. When the Maligin reaches its "top," above 83° N. Latitude, ambitious tourists may make a short airplane flight towards the North Pole. The minute last week that hatless Explorer Wilkins had finished his rapid queries concerning stores for his Arctic-going submarine...
...This war will be "defensive," according to Comrade Molotov, but it threatens. "The Soviet Government's chief danger today," he cried, "is armed intervention! . . . We alone have solved the employment problem. . . . I will close this part of my discourse by quoting from a resolution passed by the Archangel Soviet...
Obediently Gabriel descends, speedily decides that Editor Benito Mussolini of Il Popolo d'Italia in Milan is The Man, confers with him in his newspaper office. After modest remonstrance Editor Mussolini accepts the Divine mission. On March 23, 1919 he founds, under the Archangel Gabriel's personal supervision, the first Fascio di Combattimento...