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...regions. Africa and South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney Island off South America and Kraulshaferi, Greenland, between Hooker Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, whose spring icepack was a U. S. cinema villain last week in Igloo (TIME...
...Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
Despite occasional dramatic refinements that tend to discredit the entire picture, Igloo is well done. Good shots: the company of walruses inching off the ice floe; Eskimos kicking a snowball back & forth with their insteps; a whale whamming its tail out of water; a polar bear shuffling over...
Admiral Byrd last week ordered an epitaph for his terrier Igloo, with whom he flew over both poles and who is now buried at Dedham, Mass.: "Igloo?He Was More Than A Friend...
...Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced...