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...several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group...
Radio experts are of the opinion that the cause of the prolonged difficulty in communicating with the MacMillan party was the long Arctic Summer. Not all amateurs realize that the sun's rays affect detrimentally radio transmission in daylight by expanding the atmosphere and partly disintegrating it (a process called ionization...
...America the Macmillan Co. published last week a book by one Mme. Anna Viroubova dealing with her twelve years at the Imperial Russian Court, her experiences under the Kerensky regime and under the Bolshevik autocracy. There can be no doubt but that this authoritative book is of historical importance...
MEMOIRS OF THE RUSSIAN COURT-Anna Viroubova-Macmillan...
DEIRDRE-James Stephens-Macmillan ($2.50). The story of Deirdre, Ireland's Helen of Troy-the pursuit of her by King Conachur of Ulster- her flight with Naoise, son of Usna-her life in exile with Naoise and his brothers-her ruinous beauty-the tragic end of it all and the tremendous last fight where the sons of Usna, caught in Conachur's treacherous net, were conquered at last by magic, after slaying their hundreds. And Deirdre died on her young husband's body, singing their keen. A beautiful retelling of one of the finest folk-tales...