Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PEARY-William Herbert Hobbs-Macmillan ($5). A frosty account of Admiral Peary's eight polar expeditions, in which the author's partisanship is concentrated on riddling Dr. Cook's rival claim as discoverer of the North Pole...
...Fordham's "Seven Blocks" the most impressive are a Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many...
Bartlett, who has recently returned from his eleventh voyage to the Arctic, is recognized as the Dean of Northern explorers. He was captain of Peary's ship which failed to reach the Pole in 1905, and again four years later was Captain when Peary was successful...
Famed always as a fast pianist was Ignace Jan Paderewski, a challenger to Scott last week only in his Duo-Art recordings. In the fastest section of the Hungarian Rhapsody, Paderewski plays 156 notes in six seconds, or 26 notes per second. Scott managed to outspeed the great Pole by 1½ sec. Scott's all-time record is 44½ notes per second...
...MORNING FLIGHT-Peter Scott-Scribner ($10). In the front of this fine book is a self-portrait of the only son of the late Captain Robert Scott and the celebrated English sculptor who is now Lady Hilton Young. From his father, who died returning from the South Pole, Peter Scott evidently inherited a determination to be strenuous, and from his mother a plastic talent beyond the ordinary. His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary." Few people have painted anything so well...