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...should like to correct your assumption that I am generally considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers...
...Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which can be regarded as proof." The commission's chairman declared that Dr. Cook's claim was "shameless...
Assisted by members of the Polar Hear Club, who revel in such work, and by two 2-ton trucks belonging to the Maintenance Department the Puritans cleared an area of over 200 yards along Mill street, making available ample room for the swanky cars of the eager dancers...
When the snow frolic was ended, the Club voted to adjourn to its particular entry only to find the entry door bolted. Appeals to lighted windows were so intensified by the steadily dropping temperature that soon the door was opened from within, and the Polar Bare Club filed inside formulating a program of revenge...
Last week Winthrop House's Standish quadrangle witnessed the jamboree of the Polar Bare Club. This organization owes its inception to the scarcity of water a year ago last Christmas at the Mountaineering Club's hut on Mt. Washington...