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Joseph Stalin last week was in such genial spirits that, when publicly welcoming the Soviet North Pole Expedition home to Moscow, he kissed its chief, heavily bearded Professor Otto Schmidt, full on the mouth. Also back in Moscow last week from their Coronation trip to England were U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, he bent on making an immediate tour of the Ukraine. As if most of the Soviet Union were not weltering in a lather of treason trials, executions and suicides of Big Reds, and purges from the Communist Party which its news-organs reported under screamers...
...party, bringing to 35 the number of Russians encamped serenely at the top of the world to investigate scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff had noted three facts of scientific interest: their radios worked most peculiarly, playing magnetic leapfrog over numerous electrical blind spots; the water was 2½ miles deep below them; their floe was drifting away from the Pole five miles each day, had already moved some 60 miles...
...Rudolf Island meanwhile waited 37 men, including four scientists, who will live at the Pole for the coming year. This week the three other planes are scheduled to take the four scientists and a load of supplies to the base, bring Dr. Schmidt and his companions back. The four who will remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro...
Incapacitated by the sprained ankle acquired in the Yale meet, Captain Bill Schmidt will be unable to compete in the high hurdles. Having steadily improved since the beginning of the season, his teammates Haydock in the high jump, Horrick in the shot, Litman in the javelin, and Northrop in the half mile are aiming for places, perhaps firsts, in their respective events...
While the Eli Varsity men piled up points on the track, Crimson weightmen were bringing in upsets to be chalked up on the scoring board. Captain Bill Schmidt sprained an ankle in the high hurdles, to be kept out of the lows later in the afternoon. Bill had the satisfaction of seeing John Case and John Sparrow go on without him in the highs to finish first and third...