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White Thunder. From Horse Island, Newfoundland, two planes emerged last week, one with success, one with anticipated failure. After cracking up on the ice off Horse Island, Pilot Robert Fogg and his photographer had worked all night in the biting cold, improvising repairs, and raced home next day to Associated Press and Paramount News with first news pictures of the Viking disaster (TIME, March 23 and 30). From the other plane, a Sikorsky amphibian, ice-wise Bernt Balchen and two companions had scanned the floes in vain for a trace of Varick Frissell, the young Yale graduate who, with...
Frissell, 27, had devoted his vacations to exploring little known parts of Newfoundland and Labrador even before entering Yale with the class of 1926. Last year, having raised $200,000, he took a party of actors aboard the Viking to make a sound-cinema called White Thunder of the sealing fleets. It was for additional shots to complete the scenario that he set out with Cameraman Arthur G. Penrod on the disastrous voyage last month...
...crackling evening over White Bay, Newfoundland, last week. A lonesome woman, solitary radio operator on Horse Island, took a long bedtime look at a brig-antine's bulk in the broken ice 16 miles off shore. It was the Viking, seal hunting ship from which Varick Frissell* with a troupe of 15 last year took the major part of a talkie, to be named White Thunder. For continuity, he this year wanted shots of seals pupping and the pups learning to swim. He also wanted scenes of sealers dynamiting icebergs out of their ship's path. The Viking...
...Saint (Scribner's, $1), Dr. Grenfell last month published the address he made when inducted in 1929 as Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Scotland. In it he happily notes: "Two years ago we opened a large, modern, fireproof hospital, built of reinforced concrete and steel" at St. Anthony, Newfoundland. The other four hospitals he conducts in Labrador and Newfoundland are, like the one at Battle Harbor, built of wood...
Died. The Honorable John Anderson, 75, senior member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland, co-formulator (with the late William Willett of London) of the first daylight saving plan (1907), father of Producer John Murray Anderson; in St. John's, Newfoundland...