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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW-Admir-able combination of Shakespeare. Pick- ford and Fairbanks.
Moscow children under 16 were forbidden, last week, to attend the ancient Douglas Fairbanks cinema Don Q, Son of Zorro "to protect their immature minds from the contamination of its bourgeois ideology."
He knew Arctic flying better than any other man.* When the U. S. Army flyers made the first air penetration of Alaska (1920)†, he was teaching at Fairbanks High School. Norwegian-blooded, born in North Dakota, school work irked him. He became a flyer.
When Sir George Hubert Wilkins began his three-year long attempt to fly across the Arctic to Europe, Eielson, most experienced pilot of the region, became his pilot. Fairbanks, their base, has since become the base of most Alaskan flying. Point Barrow was their jumping point. In 1927 they made...
At Teller, a neat village of ten frame buildings, a group of flannel-shirted, khaki-trousered flyers in fur parkas and mukluks, stomped around in helpless patience last week. What planes they had, light open ones, could not ram through the foggy wind wall. But able help was en route...