Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somebody was bound to start fun-poking at the late greatly ballyhooed Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Vaudevillian Fred Allen has already made Manhattan audiences laugh about it in Three's a Crowd, but Bird Life at the Pole is the first full-length parody. The story is supposed to have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming...
...Bernt Balchen, who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, took a job last week as pilot on the Ludington Line's plane-every-hour service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Pilot Balchen & backers are planning a round-the-world flight...
...Advancement of Science, the American Geological Society to which he sent greetings at their last meeting (TIME, Jan. 12); he has received at the White House Einar Paul Lundborg, rescuer of Umberto Nobile, Dr. Hugo Eckener, Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, U. S. to Rome flyer, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte. He has approved Government help given to scientific institutions, Smithsonian Institution, etc.; in 1929 he appointed 17 delegates to the World Engineering Congress, Tokyo; he spoke at the 50th anniversary of invention of the incandescent lamp; he appointed a committee to study social trends...
...months later Secretary Wilbur pinned the D. F. C. upon the breasts of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Radioman Noville for the flight to France - a private venture backed by the late Rodman Wanamaker. "At the same table ... sat Bernt Balchen, Lieutenant in the Norwegian Naval Reserve . . . and Bert Acosta [who] had flown Byrd and Noville across the Atlantic ... to them, publicly, Secretary Wilbur expressed regret that because they were 'civilians' the law barred them from...
Died. Unalaska, 5, lead husky in one of the dog teams of the Byrd Antarctic expedition ; killed by a hit-&-run driver while being exercised during a tour with other Byrd exhibits; in Monroe...