Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who live beyond the reach of fast surface mail get their copies of TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon...
...travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels. Out to please everyone, they were preparing to stage Hamlet in the courtyard of 365- year-old Kronborg Castle...
...famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...United States Weather Bureau will offer four students the opportunity to travel to the Arctic next summer, Assistant Dean Norman Harrower, Jr. '09 announced yesterday...
...second feature, "Nanook of the North" has returned. This classic Robert J. Flaherty documentary of a generation ago still surpasses a lot of current professional films. The simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...