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Last June at Moscow's airport delighted Joseph Stalin gave a great bear hug and kiss to Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, the most magnificently bearded Bolshevik in all Russia (see cut). The achievements of the Soviet North Sea Route Administration under Hero Schmidt were then the most daring and courageous to the credit of Soviet science (TIME, June 14). Last week there stood to the credit of Professor Schmidt and his Arctic colleagues this year's fresh crop of achievements by Soviet North Pole scientists (TIME, Feb. 28), but the Dictator was not handing out any more hugs...
...beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept secret last week. Soon the charge of wrecking was hurled, with an official announcement that, acting upon the report of Vice Premier Kosior...
...Vice Premier also declared and the People's Commissars affirmed that "self-satisfaction and conceit" are prevalent vices among the Soviet Arctic scientists; moreover, that under Hero Schmidt there have been employed "methods of selecting personnel which provided an excellent base for the criminal anti-Soviet activities of wreckers...
...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...
...LeBlanc's parent avocado tree in Atlixco. There, on Easter, they will gather round the tree and listen to numerous complimentary speeches from U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Mexican dignitaries. They will present a gold medal to Señor LeBlanc, a gold medal to Mr. Schmidt. To the music of Mexican bands they will unveil a tablet, suitably inscribed...