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Reading about the Arctic trials of the U.S. Army's Operation Frigid, Americans of both hemispheres inevitably wondered about the state of their common defenses. For instance: What about the chain of bases the U.S. had constructed for hemispheric security during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Common Defense | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...frigid festivities for the Boston Council of the Intercollegiate Outing Clubs of America will be inaugurated this weekend with a Winter Carnival on a smaller scale to the Dartmouth carnival of the northern New England colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Clubs to Hold First Hub Snow Fete | 1/8/1947 | See Source »

William Latady, special student and president of the Club, has already left Cambridge and is heading for Beaumont, Texas, where the expedition will set sail on January 15. Latady is taking the frigid trip in the capacity of aerial photographer, while his colleague, Robert H. T. Dodson '47, a former vice-president of the mountaineers, will be the trip's geologist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineer Duo Join Ronne Jaunt To Antarctic Pole | 1/7/1947 | See Source »

...average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vesting Day | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with a frigid Swede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knighthood Not in Flower | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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