Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...
Even his contemporaries may not be sure which was better: the three-year Arctic expedition in the From or the ten years as League of Nations man, during which Nansen won the Nobel Peace Prize. Biographer Sorensen is not concerned with casting up his hero's accounts: he points to all of Nansen's achievements with unwavering pride...
...window antics of the showman. Miss Colbert and the statesman's butler are deceived by the imposture and the former takes a new interest in the showman's version of Cohan. To solve the inconvenient end of the imposture, the statesman arranges to have the showman shanghaied to the Arctic Circle on election night, is so exported himself. The true-blue showman becomes President, Claudette Colbert his First Lady, and Jimmy Durante saves the U. S. by screaming over the radio, "A depression is a hole, a hole is nothin' and why should I waste my time talking about nothin...
Engaged. Lincoln Ellsworth, explorer, and one Mary-Louise Ulmer, amateur aviatrix of Pottsville, Pa. Next year, after the marriage and before Sir George Hubert Wilkins worms his way under Arctic ice to reach the North Pole. Mr. Ellsworth will go with Sir Hubert and Pilot Bernt Balchen to the Antarctic to attempt a 20-hr, flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea over the Queen Maud mountains...
...Verville* left from Selwood Bay in his 45-ft. motored schooner Dora. With him were Alex ("Sandy") Austin, 21, and some Husky dogs. To get to Melville Island the party had to skirt the westerly shore of Banks Island, the westernmost of the stupendous archipelago which clutters the Arctic north of Canada. Off Banks Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other...