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...musk ox stands 5 ft. tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches...
CHANCES-A. Hamilton Gibbs-Little, Brown ($2.50). Tom and Jack Ingleside, English adolescents, fitted into French College de St. Malo "like two young zebras introduced into a herd of reindeer." When they learned to say "mer-r-r-de" properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly...
...first wife); his present wife is Natalia Ivanovna Sedova. With many another revolutionary Trotsky was in Russia again for the unsuccessful uprising of 1905. He was caught, tried, once again sentenced to Siberia. This time he escaped before he reached his place of exile, got to the railroad by reindeer sleigh. He rejoined his wife, went into exile again in Europe. In Vienna he started the Pravda, famed newspaper. But by this time Trotsky was known to most Foreign Offices as an undesirable alien; one after the other the countries of Europe ejected him. Finally he was deported from Spain...
Pilots expect what to the rest of the world is the unusual-forest fires, lost parties, calls for ambulance service, mineral deposits, migrating caribou, herded reindeer. In New Brunswick bears might steal a pilot's food. In Hudson Bay a seaplane might be bumped by a white whale...
...Penjinsk, Siberia, a monster meteorite fell, killed 130 reindeer...