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...most highly publicized hunk of ice in the world last week was a floe about the size of three tennis courts. It was drifting in the frigid, ice-choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They were in great danger, for the ice cake, once big enough to hold a sizable town, was getting rapidly smaller. Once ten feet thick, it was getting thinner...
...shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...
...North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away fortnight ago, waited till the weather lifted, then joined the main party, bringing to 35 the number of Russians encamped serenely at the top of the world to investigate scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff...
...electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...
...colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged it all winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty Professor Schmidt transferred the remaining 101 persons in his charge to an ice floe, whence they were removed in a spectacular series of airplane rescues (TIME, April 23 et ante). In the ensuing storm of enthusiasm the forlorn Wrangel colonists were all but forgotten...