Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
From Admiral Byrd's S. S. Jacob Ruppert at 68° South Latitude, 124° West Longitude: "This morning we picked up our first penguins. . . . The cry 'Penguins' brought men to the rail from all parts of the ship. Many jests were cheerfully flung at these merry creatures. It is possible they understood. After one or two looks at this amazing vessel . . . they hastily dropped down on their bellies and with their flippers working like connecting rods scuttled away. . . . Their cheerful industry offered this consolation. Where in the whole world is there a creature with a harder...
Died. Jeanette Klein Lauchheimer, 99, one of the twin sisters believed to be oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...
...into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower wing supported the craft. Passengers and crew...
Married. Margery Durant Campbell Daniel Cooper, aviation enthusiast, daughter of Motorman Crapo Durant; and Commander Fitzhugh Green. 45, arctic explorer, author (Bob Bartlett, Master Mariner; Martin Johnson, Lion Hunter; Dick Byrd, Air Explorer); in Bronxville. N. Y. It was her fourth marriage, his second...