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LEAVES FROM A GREENLAND DIARY- Ruth Bryan Owen-Dodd, Mead...
...Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
Shrewd U. S. Minister Ruth Bryan Owen flattered little Denmark's pride in its big colony of Greenland by holding a Dansmik (Eskimo feast) in her legation at Copenhagen. Eighty guests, chosen for their interest in Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...
...schooled to her finger tips." At her arrival last week, Danish orchestras burst into ''Springtime in Denmark- Lilacs in Bloom," the words by Madam Minister, music by her daughter, "Ruth the Second." As the cracker for her arrival Madam Minister announced that bushy-bearded Premier Thorvald ("Greenland for the Eskimos") Stauning of Denmark would accept an invitation to visit President Roosevelt in the White House next spring...
Tramp, tramp-the thick-soled, high-button shoes of Norwegian Deputies carried them into the Nobel Institute last week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best...