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...Gate into San Francisco Bay. One evening last week Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, embarked at Southampton, sailed down the Solent. In Copenhagen Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy, in Riga, U. S. Envoy John...
Stirred by this furor, the Museum administration had Whitey moved down, from the sixth floor into the main foyer and the majestic company of "Ahnighito," 36½-ton meteorite from Greenland, the regal statue of the Museum's longtime (1881-1908) President Morris Ketchum Jesup, the big scale drawing of Baluchi-therium (TIME, April 8). Although in her informal surroundings upstairs Whitey had postured freely for the Press, she now retired as if in stage fright to one end of her glass cage, sat motionless and goggling behind a fern, presented to squadrons of school children only a vague...
...offering to the growing pile. Not strictly a New Dealer, the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan eschewed politics and economics, confined herself to weather, scenery, sights. Her little book was the record of a semi-official trip last year to Denmark's biggest colony. Greenland...
This book by Madam Minister is about the nearest most readers will ever get to Greenland, for the island is closed to tourists and traders. Traveler Owen set out from Copenhagen on her voyage feeling adventurous but game. The little 1,400-ton ship she went on had only one bathroom, but her cabin was filled with flowers. At her first sight of Greenland's icy mountains Mrs. Owen found herself "struggling with the impulse toward tears." Looking hard at the icebergs gave her strength to face things: "I know I shall fear neither death nor living so much...
...triumphal progress around Greenland's coasts Minister Owen stood as godmother for an Eskimo baby (which, like all Eskimo babies, had a blue patch on its back), wore sealskin trousers (she had "to wiggle about very skillfully to get in"), hung up a world's record ("the northernmost point ever visited by a foreign diplomat"). A commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried...