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...Peter Ustinov, writer, director and star of this comedy, remains mute for the first five minutes of it. Propped up by a pillow, he half-sits, half-lies in bed, a snow wreath of great age framing his petulantly mischievous features. He looks like a cross between a grumpy polar bear and a tipsy Greek philosopher. As his equally ancient wife ("a nagger's nagger") frets, scolds, and pokes at him, Ustinov's countenance becomes a weather map of changing frustrations. His eyes ski off at rakish tangents. His jaw chomps erratically over what could be a mouthful...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator...
...colorful politician-he was elected speaker of the Virginia House after just one term. With offbeat humor, he named his three sons Tom, Dick and Harry (they arrived in reverse order), was to take great pleasure in their later success: Tom in business, Dick as the world-famed polar explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who died in 1957; Harry in politics. But old Dick was also a most convivial fellow, who loved a sociable sip and was so totally lacking in financial sense that he rapidly took his family toward bankruptcy...
...Paries & Polar Bears. In Boston, following a time-worn custom, Herald Managing Editor George Minot dispatched a platoon of newsmen to summer resorts on Cape Cod. "We just tell the reporter to drive and look," said Minot, "and whenever he sees an old lady doing nothing-talk to her." The Omaha World-Herald began a series on the city's 74 parks that could well last out the summer. The San Francisco Chronicle trumpeted an event that knows no season: HE FOUND LOVE IN ICE CREAM PARLOR. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman and the Topeka Daily Capital sent photographers...
...tested most of the operational missile-age hardware of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and is increasingly a testing ground for NASA. The first operationally fired Thor was launched from Vandenberg, and so was the first Atlas to be rocketed across the Pacific. The Discoverer series was launched into polar orbit, and the 1960 recovery of the gold-plated capsule of Discoverer XIII off Hawaii marked the first time an American object had been retrieved from orbit in space...