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...American and Imperial Airways will be joint operators, each carrying mail one way, passengers both ways. The route will be New York, Montreal, Harbor Grace, Ireland, London, with an alternate passage via Bermuda, the Azores, Spain. The so-called "Lindbergh route" via Greenland and Iceland will not be used. Giant Clippers of the Martin and Sikorsky types will be flown by Pan American; Imperial may use the same planes or British planes of the same calibre...
Walters' Iceland. Eighteen bright, loosely painted landscapes made up a show at the Kleemann Galleries. Most interesting fact about them was that they were views of a land almost unknown to the U. S.-Iceland. Enthusiastically Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote a long foreword for the catalog and elaborate footnotes to explain how well Artist Emile Walters had caught the brilliance, clarity and absence of perspective in the Arctic landscape...
Henry Goddard Leach, 54, A. B. A. M. Ph. D., Commander of the North Star (Sweden), Knight of St. Olav (Norway), Knight of Falcon (Iceland), and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, read over what he had written for the next issue of his Forum and found it good. It would make a whacking lead editorial...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
...five foreign countries with the greatest number of Harvard residents are Canada, 703; China, 360; France, 255; England, 252; and Japan, 224. Such countries as Algeria, British Guiana, Celebes, Iceland, Manchukuo and the Society Islands are included in this world-wide tabulation...