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...edge, smashed Professor Schmidt's motorboat. The hardy professor worked overtime in a gale to keep his precarious village functioning. Last week he was running a fever, saying nothing about it, when the weather cleared and Soviet rescue planes got through. They were flown by Pilots Molokov, Slepnev and Kamanin. The professor loaded his weakest villagers aboard. Molokov could squeeze only three men in his cabin, but he had an idea. He got out his silk parachutes, laid two men on the ice. He swaddled them in all the clothes they had, then in the parachutes, wrapping them like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Off the Ice | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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