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Besides the dog Jolly, the four on the floe were Leader Ivan Papanin, Radio Operator Ernest Krenkel, two other scientists. In the Arctic, where every Russian is a king, the king of kings is hardy, hairy Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration. Four years ago, when his ship, the Chelyuskin, had been squeezed, broken and sunk by the knitting ice pack, he spectacularly transferred 71 persons from the ship to an ice floe, whence they were spectacularly rescued by airplane. Last week, as Papanin's floe drifted toward Jan Mayen Island, jungle-bearded...
...Duranty experienced spasms of amazement at the diffident manner in which the drama was handled in the Soviet press. Cabled he: "Today each Moscow newspaper gives their plight 66 lines of print in a brief double column with a bald single headline. 'On Drifting Station of Comrade Ivan Papanin.' Can you beat...
...including four scientists, who will live at the Pole for the coming year. This week the three other planes are scheduled to take the four scientists and a load of supplies to the base, bring Dr. Schmidt and his companions back. The four who will remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin...