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...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...
Culled as they are from the pages of Life, the several episodes from the Life Polar Expedition are fairly familiar and one may possibly be excused if upon second perusal the antics of Lieutenant Commander Marc Connelly, Ensign Thermaline and Bobby seem a trifle shopworn. To the uninitiated, may they bring the same joy they delivered to others in the days of their youth...
...despatch was from Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, black-bearded Australian soldier of fortune, and his sky pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, saying they had crawled safely off the Polar Sea after 17 days and nights of discomfort...
Died. Captain John Bartlett, 83, who introduced 62 years ago the first steam vessel into Newfoundland sealing expeditions; uncle of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, of Peary's polar expedition, and who himself accompanied Peary on his first expedition; at Fredericton...
...problem," said Commander MacMillan speaking of Polar discovering expeditions, "is not in getting to the North Pole, but in knowing you are there if you get there. I am certain that one or two explorers have passed over the extreme top of the world, but they have no way to prove it. The only exact way of locating the Pole is by a careful study of the sun, the moon and the stars, in their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found...