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Last week the Taimyr struggled within a mile of the Papanin floe. It was joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Care & Attention | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

The most highly publicized hunk of ice in the world last week was a floe about the size of three tennis courts. It was drifting in the frigid, ice-choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Men & a Dog | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Besides the dog Jolly, the four on the floe were Leader Ivan Papanin, Radio Operator Ernest Krenkel, two other scientists. In the Arctic, where every Russian is a king, the king of kings is hardy, hairy Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration. Four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Men & a Dog | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

A few sons of harmony sent a petition, That he their inspirer and patron would be, When this answer arriv'd from the jolly old Grecian

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Shoemakers' humor is seldom subtle, but Welles has augmented his troupe with accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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