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...Afterward he turned to Earth's 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...
Isolated though he is 550 miles north of the railroad terminal at Fairbanks, Dr. Greist has nevertheless been host to several prominent U. S. citizens during the last decade. In 1926 Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, having sailed a dirigible across the North Pole, paused at Point Barrow, eleven miles north of Dr. Greist's settlement. More recently, the Lindberghs, flying to China, visited the Greists at Barrow. Last August when Flyers Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on a river bank 15 miles from Barrow, Dr. Greist embalmed their bodies...
Sirs: ... I may be able to throw some light on Dr. Frederick A. Cook's efforts to prove that his tour to the North Pole was on the up and up [TIME, March 30]. . . . In 1926 I was a newshawk on the Fort Worth Record-Telegram when Roald Amundsen, ace of the cold weather explorers, came to that city to deliver a lecture. Dr. Cook at that time was awaiting the outcome of a federal penitentiary appeal in the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth. Amundsen was asked: "Do you believe Dr. Cook reached the North Pole?" The explorer...
...should like to correct your assumption that I am generally considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers...
...brass gleaming, its larder bursting and its water tanks brimming, the private Pullman car Roald Amundsen glided softly out of Manhattan one afternoon last month behind the New York Central's westbound Commodore Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank...