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...plan includes extensive planting of frost-resisting crops of the sort developed by the late Ivan Michurin, the Burbank of Russia. A start has already been made with tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce grown under glass at Khibina, inside the Arctic Circle, and with potatoes and cabbage that ripen outdoors in the wan, fleeting summer...
...into the Arctic night went Sergeant Morgan and a native crew in a whaleboat, equipped with an outboard motor. Through bad, murky weather, all mist and fog, they put-putted southward across little ponds and up small streams. Few hours later they made out a splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch...
...playing in Maine in a summer theatre performance of Ceiling Zero, which has for its climax a fatal airplane crash. At Point Barrow the bodies were placed in the tiny Mission Hospital. Then Sergeant Morgan went to his radio station to tell the world about the end of an Arctic holiday of which Will Rogers had written: "We are sure having a great time. . . . You know who I bet would like to be on this trip? Mr. Roosevelt...
...mammalogy and ornithology, journey up the waters of the Paraguay River, cross over to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Accordingly he dropped in for lunch at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, arranged to take with him Ornithologist George Cherrie, Mammalogist Leo Miller and Arctic Explorer Anthony Fiala. In Brazil he was joined by his son Kermit...
...masses before it took place, how much agony followed it. His last chapters become a cumulative catalog of miseries as he writes of the civil war, when Reds fought Whites on a great fluctuating battle-line that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea, while famine and typhus were triumphing behind the lines. Unpopular though the Bolsheviks undoubtedly were in many sections, they could always count on more support among the common people than the Whites, who were everywhere identified with a return of the monarchy. "The alternative to Bolshevism...