Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Richard E. Byrd, 24, son of Senator Harry Byrd, nephew and namesake of the homecoming Admiral; and Helen Bradshaw, 24, blueblooded Boston descendant of famed Secretary of State James G. Elaine; both for the first time; in Washington...
...geologists with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who feels responsible for Antarctica, are more imaginative. Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy. There-just possibly-unknown fauna may be nibbling at unknown flora...
...fictioneer almost beat Byrd to the icecaps. A gaudy pseudo-scientific yarn called The President of the United States, Detective, by H. R. Heard (who, as Gerald Heard, is also a Southern California cult-leader), last week won first ($3,000) prize in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine annual story contest. Heard's plot: What would happen if the icecaps completely melted? The year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt...
...mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, poke toward one another through its frozen heart. Are the seas connected by a strait choked with eternal ice? This, says Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle...
Before real estate brokers or prospectors slake their claims, however, the ticklish international problem of rights on the continent must be solved. The U. S. held on Little America is weak, both legally and physically, warns Professor Rice, because Byrd's settlement is on the Ross ice shelf, which is tech- nically ocean and a "no mans land...