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Blessed by the Pope, bidden adieu by Premier Mussolini as she sailed majestically forth on her polar flight, with one (or more) strokes of his pen, your Editor converts her [the Norge] from a "good airship" into a "BLUNT SILVERY CIGAR." [TIME, Apr. 19, SCIENCE...
Last week, the history of earth's north polar cap approached the climax of its most stirring chapter, One great event, a sporting feat, came to pass-the first visit to the Pole by a man in an airplane. Other events impended hourly...
...romanticism, is not dead. Like Aristotle and those who hug the hems of his ethical garments it lingers on. And so an American, who might just as well have been a Norwegian or a Frenchman or a Jap, risks his life to cross the uncharted areas of the Polar seas, for no more potent reason than the desire to do the impossible...
...same issue, you speak of "Pilot Ben Bielson" in connection with the Wilkins Polar expedition. Ben is a native of the little Red River Valley town of Hatton, N. Dak. During the War he served in the air forces of the A. E. F. Coming home, he was graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1921, and has since been in the flying business in Alaska. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity...
Nine days was a long time for two men and an airplane to be missing in the Arctic, but there were comforting considerations. Wilkins had had a bad wrist and would not, in all likelihood, have attempted to penetrate the Polar Basin contrary to his announced plan. "Sandy" Smith, chief of the overland party of the expedition, having reached the seacoast on his way to Barrow, flashed word that Eskimos at Thetis Island, 100 mi. southeast of Barrow had seen the Alaskan pass over, presumably on its most recent trip...