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...scientists are the only people who are not bored, the only adventurers of modern times, the real explorers???the fortunate ones. ?1960 Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: Men of the Year: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Taken completely unawares, the Press unleashed a flock of accounts varying even more wildly than their earlier speculations. The Brattvaag had bodies of all three explorers???Andree, Nils Strindberg & Knut Fraenkel?well preserved (Associated Press). The Brattvaag had the body of Andree, of another not identified, and the scattered bones of a third (New York Herald Tribune}. There were two skeletons, the bones of a third; Andree's head, in many fragments, had been found later (Universal Service). There were two bodies, Andree's and Fraenkel's. Andree "had been found in a sitting posture, reclining a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Getting the Andree Story | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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