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...Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...historic background by appearing in military tunics, breeches with a single scarlet stripe, and high, shiny riding boots. It has many another unique characteristic: Its members are all exiled from Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like any military commander...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...