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Other explorers have contributed more to geographical knowledge, but the most picturesque, the heartiest and the biggest storyteller of the lot is 52-year-old Peter Freuchen (Eskimo, Arctic Adventure). A giant, bearded, Danish Jew. Freuchen quit medical school at 20 to join a Greenland expedition, married an Eskimo woman by whom he had two children, lived 18 years among the Eskimos as trader and hunter...
When in 1927 he had to have a leg amputated-it had been frozen in his last Greenland expedition-it looked as if Freuchen would have to take things easier. Informal, he stomped around the house on his peg leg, wore his artificial limb only when he went out in society. But soon he was going stronger than ever. He made two trips to Greenland, where he revisited old friends, brought their stories up-to-date, dug up many a new tale. A special part of his pleasure, the reader suspects, was his wife's slightly sick astonishment...
...died in 1920. An Eskimo to the marrow, he could not, like his sister Pipaluk, now 19, adapt himself to life in Denmark. When, on one of his visits to Enehoje, Mequsaq set fire to the estate just to see it burn, Freuchen decided to send him to Greenland for good. But although Mequsaq could not learn white men's ways, neither could he learn to be happy away from his father, who knew, each time they parted, that Mequsaq, for all his poker-faced Eskimo reticence, suffered the special heartbreak of an orphan and an exile...
...human affairs it sometimes happens in efforts to save lives that more lives are lost than those originally at stake. That is what happened last fortnight to Soviet Russia. In the jumbled waste of pack ice east of Greenland four scientists were dangerously drifting on their "'station," a floe which was in constant danger of breaking up (TIME, Feb. 14). For nine months, as they were carried by sea currents southward from the Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow...
...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...