Word: despatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends of seals, friends of penguins were incensed last week at a despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...
Having barely hinted the almost sacrilegious idea of Morrow,unpopularity, the Herald Tribune's able Jack Starr-Hunt made handsome amends with a pleasant human interest story, in his next despatch...