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...Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...
...Viking ancestors would have approved the first part of the late great Fridtjof Nansen's life, would have misunderstood or laughed at the second...
Even his contemporaries may not be sure which was better: the three-year Arctic expedition in the From or the ten years as League of Nations man, during which Nansen won the Nobel Peace Prize. Biographer Sorensen is not concerned with casting up his hero's accounts: he points to all of Nansen's achievements with unwavering pride...
...rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...Cossack chorus emphasizes its historic background by appearing in military tunics, breeches with a single scarlet stripe, and high, shiny riding boots. It has many another unique characteristic: Its members are all exiled from Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like...