Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they imply a lot." The leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from 20% to 40% of the funds finally collected" from the public. That leader's "entire claim to fame, perhaps, rests on his once having made a trip to the Arctic as mate of a whaler." But he poses with a foot on a dead polar bear and gets the pictures in rotogravure sections of newspapers. During the expedition "strange rumors of dissension in the camp begin to percolate through the public consciousness, but are promptly quashed. . . ." Upon its return, "each...
...substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player; he is also a good shot, a fine musher, and Canada's famed, revered ''Arctic Bishop." He was going to Montreal to be consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of Hudson Bay which, comprising some 1,600,000 sq. mi. of snow and ice. is probably Rome's largest vicariate...
...that "too much stress is being laid on this side of my affairs." On his way to Montreal last month Monsignor Turquetil watched four men playing bridge. One bid a spade His partner, with four aces and three kings, passed. "I took one look at their hands,'' said the Arctic Bishop, "and then, overwhelmed, I moved into the next parlor...
...third time a police patrol set out from Aklavik, but this time Albert Johnson had fled from Rat River, was trying to beat his way through the arctic winter to Alaska and safety. Followed the north country's greatest man hunt. Trappers rushed their wives to trading posts for safety, then joined the posse...
Treasure Hunt. Few weeks ago Pilot William H. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, widow of the early barnstormer Silas Christofferson, took off from Seattle to seek the Baychimo, icebound, abandoned, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...