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...Colgate--Mawson 2, Waggoner; Harvard--Ford 8, Sevcsik 3, Naber 2, Bennett 2, Moger 2, Denton, Anderson...
...church meeting or to their pastor. We will be talking to people who have become disenchanted with the church." Desk Clerks & Beats. The daily routine of the United Church's other listening ministers is far removed from that of most clerics. In Las Vegas, the Rev. Richard Mawson is a full-time desk clerk at the Sands Hotel, and works after hours with the people he meets in the hotels and casinos along The Strip. The Rev. Frank Evans, a topflight amateur skier, lives and works at California's famed Squaw Valley ski resort; his tactful counseling...
Died. Sir Douglas Mawson, 76, Australian explorer of the Antarctic, longtime (1920-52) professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Adelaide; in Adelaide. Born in Yorkshire, Douglas Mawson went to Australia as a child, made his first journey to Antarctica in 1907 under Ernest Shackleton, was one of three men to reach the south magnetic pole. Leading his own expedition in 1911, he discovered George V Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive...
...violent wind that blows northward from the Adelie Coast of Antarctica has been a meteorological mystery since it was first studied by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1912. In winter it often blows for long periods at 90 m.p.h., and gusts may reach 200 m.p.h. While the wind is roaring on the Adelie Coast, the air may be almost calm in McMurdo Sound, just to the east...
...German mapmaker promptly labeled Wilkes's antarctic coastline "Wilkes Land," and cartographers of many another nation followed suit. But not the British. Long afterward an Australian named Sir Douglas Mawson went over the Wilkes route, claimed that Wilkes had made mistakes or misrepresentations. These were attributed by Wilkes's defenders to polar refraction, which sometimes makes land below the horizon appear above it (a phenomenon also seized on by Robert Peary's defenders to explain Peary's mistakes in Greenland). Later it was shown that Mawson himself had erred because of the same illusions. Finally...