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...Asia across America's ice-locked top. But not until 1906 did any man navigate completely across the Arctic. Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen's icebound trail, full of shallows, swirling currents and subject to sudden storms has since been followed by only three or four ships...
...like Ross, Franklin and Amundsen were the possibilities of Bellot Strait, named in 1852 after its discoverer Joseph Rene Bellot, French naval lieutenant. This lies at the extreme northerly point of North America's mainland, 2,000 miles directly above Minneapolis, and separates Boothia Peninsula from Somerset Island. (Barrow Strait, 150 miles further north, separates Somerset Island from Cornwallis Island.) Bellot Strait, situated on the 72nd parallel 400 miles inside the Arctic Circle, is also just 150 miles north of the North Magnetic Pole-so close that ships' compasses are useless. Explorers have known that if it were...
Lloyds Banks, established such trade-names as Colman's Mustard, Huntley & Palmer's Biscuits, Jacob's Biscuits. Three families, the Cadburys, Frys and Rowntrees, made fortunes in the chocolate business. Among delegates in Philadelphia last week were Barrow Cadbury, a fox-bearded little man who was chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. until five years ago, and his wife Geraldine, a Dame of the British Empire who told reporters: "I put 'D' on my cards but I wouldn't like to be called Dame." Energetic Joan Fry of the Bristol chocolate-making family was present...
When a coffee-colored Negro boy named Joe Louis Barrow graduated from Detroit's Bronson School in 1931, his teacher gave him a report card to take home to his mother. On the card was written: "This boy should be able to do something with his hands...
...Alaska everybody who is anybody knows who Martin Slisco is. North of the Arctic Circle 200 miles as the planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph...