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...sent by Congress, sighted its white peaks, declared it to be a continental land mass. To Palmer Land from the tip of South America is only 575 nautical miles. Political argument is that the million-square-mile sector explored by U. S. visitors from Palmer to Byrd (and Lincoln Ellsworth) should be claimed in toto, instead of in spots, brought within the Monroe Doctrine's sphere, before Germany or another power moves in. According to Admiral Byrd: "No foreign expedition has so much as looked upon [it]. . . . We have penetrated it ... lived in it ... built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: To the Bottom | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

PATTERN FOR GENIUS-Edith Ellsworth Kinsley-Dutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother, Sisters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Edith Ellsworth Kinsley has searched the Brontë novels and poems for the character of Branwell and her technique in presenting Branwell's biography is to change the fictional names in autobiographical passages to the real names, juggle tenses, link wholesale quotations in chronological order. Because one Brontë is as inconceivable as one Dionne, she has found herself as much enmeshed in the sisters' patterns as in Branwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother, Sisters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Married. Marion Houghton Hepburn, sister of Actress Katharine Hepburn (see p. 40); and Ellsworth Strong Grant; in West Hartford, Conn. Among the bridesmaids: Sister Katharine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Alexander Kyle, 32-year-old Scot: the British Amateur Golf Championship; defeating Welshman Anthony Duncan, 2 & i, in the final; at Holyake, England. Of the five U. S. entrants-Defending Champion Charlie Yates, famed Tennist Ellsworth Vines, Connecticut Socialite Dick Chapman, "Trailer" Bill Holt of Syracuse and one Ned Phillips of Philadelphia-"Trailer" Bill Holt lasted longest (semifinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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