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...beard of Otto Tulyevich Schmidt became the most famed in all Russia, and his fame the most glamorous when he and his party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
Great Northern Sea Route Administrator Schmidt will lure the little slant-eyed brothers out of their igloos, clap them into modern houses. The Schmidt settlements will have bathrooms with hot & cold running water, bakeries with bread popping in & out of ovens on conveyers, a radio network pouring out music and propaganda, libraries. "It is impossible," said the Professor, "to convince them of the advantages of settling down at fur-trading posts so long as there are no bathhouses...
...Death came last week at Spital to Austrian-born Adolf Hitler's maternal uncle Anton Schmidt. Austrian neighbors in Spital expected no condolences from the Realmleader. "Uncle Anton," they recalled, tried vainly for years to sponge on his illustrious but close-pursed nephew;. Finally he egged one of his sons to beg Cousin Adolf to send him $3 to buy a Nazi brown shirt. Replied the Realmleader: "Dear Cousin: You must buy your uniform with your own money. I am unable to accommodate...
...Mietzelfeld, W. J. Moore, J. L. Morrisson, W. Morss, A. W. Nelson, C. S. Oakman, D. E. O'Reilly, W. R. Pierson, E. D. Piper, E. H. Porter, J. Preston, D. Prouty, J. A. Rich, C. R. Richmond, E. H. Risley, S. W. Rudnick, E. L. Saenger, H. F. Schmidt, R. W. Scott, R. S. Shaw, C. C. Smith, R. I. Smith, R. P. Sorjein, C. W. Sprouse, J. H. Steinway, L. L. Sutro, C. F. Twaney, H. G. Thorndike, J. M. Venderlip, W. Vaughan, J. T. Westlake, R. G. Wolfe, W. Q. Wolfson, F. D. Wright...
William H. Schmidt, 2nd '37, chairman of the Handbook Committee; and Stephen V. N. Powelson '38, chairman of the Library Committee...