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Engaged. Paul Oscanyan, radio purveyor of news from Greenland; to Helen Sunder, only woman wireless operator in Denmark; by radio, sight unseen...
...dangers of the 2,200-mile trip, slightly south of the North Pole on the Greenland side over a region never before seen by articulate man, particularly beckoned to Capt. Wilkins. He finally made it in 20½ hours of flying time, in a small Lougheed Vega plane capable of a sustained speed of 135 miles an hour. His record indicates that he would have made the trip had it taken forever...
...carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours on May 9, 1926. Last week he hinted that his next exploit would be a trip to the South Pole...
...Putnam Expedition to North Greenland probably made no discoveries of previously unknown lands, which will stamp it as an outstanding exploring voyage. It did bring back, however, to the American Museum specimens of Arctic animals and fish which will serve as a nucleus for a great collection
...cruise of the schooner Morrissey was undertaken last summer under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. Its object was two-fold: to investigate in North Greenland the life of the Eskimos, now fast disappearing, and to secure specimens of the sea mammals and fish of that region...