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...embassy, actually helped by declaring all but 13 Americans persona non grata. "For 30 months thereafter I ran the American embassy in Prague with twelve individuals. It was the most efficient embassy I ever had." He had a deputy who "used to drive the Communists crazy by talking Eskimo over the telephone on a tapped line," a first secretary who doubled as economist and "still had time to draft Voice of America broadcasts," an officer "who ran a truck to Nuremberg every two weeks for supplies," one consul, one vice-consul, one code clerk, three secretaries, and a military establishment...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator...
...Colorado school, 14th in the world, was promoted by F. Charles Froelicher, 35, founder of Denver's Colorado Academy, and the only headmaster with an earned reputation for doing an Eskimo roll in a kayak . Director of the new school is William McK. Chapman, 56, a onetime newsman and schoolmaster. Chief Instructor is Ernest Tapley, 37, a veteran teacher of Army mountain troops in Colorado. The school has noted backers, including former Secretary of State Christian Herter, Headmaster John M. Kemper of Phillips Academy, and President Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary...
...small donors, he commends the utility of the Unalakleet Eskimo language, in which the one word oo-too-koo means "small and I wish it were bigger." One Harvardman wrote during the Depression to explain in a flurry of metallic puns his inability to donate: "I am an aluminum of two colleges besides Harvard, and can not pay antimony to all three." McCord's answer was a simple "Iron stand you." To the 35% of Harvard alumni who had never heeded his call, McCord one year hopefully anticipated the day when he could write to them a couplet...
...faculty wants qualified students to earn M.A.s along with B.A.s at the end of four years. As it is, Yale abounds with enterprising young scholars. Not untypical is Senior Nicholas J. Gubser, 23, founder of the Anthropology Club, who recently spent a 15-month leave living with an Eskimo family in Arctic Alaska. Last week he finished a paper on "the intellectual ecology of the Nunamiut Eskimos." Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. does not think such scholarship comes at a cost to other interests, and calms blue Old Blues with word that "the present Yale football team would beat...