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Among those aboard the Norge was a stalwart named Amundsen. Despatches did not give his first name, simply calling him "young Amundsen." Had he by chance been named Roald, confusion might have arisen, for "the" Roald Amundsen ? "Old Amundsen"* as the despatches may yet have it ? was at Oslo, Norway, being dined and wined by his countrymen, in company with his fellow explorer, the American Lincoln Ellsworth. They will join Colonel Nobile on the Norge at Spitzbergen and form a joint command...
...command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will join her for the great adventure of flying over uncharted white wastes to Nome, Alaska...
...least three other expeditions plan to see the "blindspot" from heavier-than-air machines. Explorers Donald B. MacMillan and Roald Amundsen have both warned against the use of planes, the Yankee agreeing with the Norseman, in view of similar experiences, that dirigibles are safer. Amundsen is going this year in the Italian-built dirigible Norge, which spent the fortnight undergoing tests at Rome. As he left the U. S. last week, Amundsen gave the airplanes one chance of success in 1,500; felt his one chance was 100% good on a 50-hour dirigible flight...
Unlike this woman, Cantain Roald Amundsen fixed his glance unswervingly upon the stage, His lean face, revealed against his companion's shirtfront, looked like the sharp and stubborn profile of a huge Norway beaver...
...White House included Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank of New York (the largest bank in the U. S.), who on leaving, assured reporters that bankers would not make private loans to countries which had not funded their War debts to the U. S.; Roald Amundsen lately returned from an airplane visit to polar regions, paying his respects, accompanied by Minister Bryn of Norway; Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who requested that Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines should have his leave of absence extended another year. (General Butler has already had two years' leave...