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Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...
...coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume: $30 an ounce. Its original formula, confided Mother Gloria, was discovered by Partner Maurice Chalom in his French chateau, hidden in an old bust...
...true calling was not medicine but exploration. In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological...
...other Pole, took the Pourqnoi Pas on seven trips to Greenland, exploring the coast, sounding the bottom, studying Eskimo folklore. In 1928 the sturdy old man in his sturdy old ship searched long & hard for his lost colleague, Roald Amundsen. By this time he had presented the Pourquoi Pas to the French Museum of Natural History, which sponsored most of his expeditions...
...East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered in the last bets. Hurrcck, blared Dr. Baker's bugle. In Baltimore last week Johns Hopkins Hospital's annual "Quartan Tartle Darby" was ready to begin...