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Leagues and leagues from Florence, far into the icy fastnesses of the North Pole, the old gentleman's son, Lincoln Ellsworth, had flown with Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway a fortnight before (TIME, June 1). The father had made their flight possible with a purse of $100,000 after twice discountenancing the adventure and urging his son to rest with him in the mellow ease and quiet of old-world culture with which he had surrounded himself. Now, dying, he pondered his surrender, weighed the dangers over and over, longed for news?but passed without hearing...
...France, Ida Rubenstein "the superb," lion huntress, onetime fiancée of Poet D'Annunzio of Italy, organized a charity fête to finance a search for Amundsen and Ellsworth in the Pourquoi Pas, ice-worthy ship of Explorer Jean Charcot...
...Ellsworth Charles Haggerty, of Allston...
Amundsen goes north under the auspices of the Norwegian Aero Club. The expedition was financed by $100,000 from James W. Ellsworth of Manhattan and has with it two Durnier-Wahl seaplanes, one to be flown by Aviator Lincoln Ellsworth, son of James W., the other by Amundsen. When he stated his plans, Amundsen announced that he would spend some 24 hours examining the Pole and its vicinity. He thought it might be possible to establish a fuel and food base at the Pole for further aerial exploration. From Kings Bay to the Pole is only a seven-hour flight...
...Foreign Students' Committee of which C. G. T. Lundell is chairman and E. H. Bailey is secretary, is as follows; Hiram Heyworth Backus of Flushing, N. Y.; John Reardon Barry of Winthrop; John Wesley Brown Jr. of Lake wood, O.; Ernest Francis Gamache of Leominster; Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston; and Madison Sayles of Belmont...