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Without the Yachts. Another surface expedition will push toward the Pole from Skelton Glacier, about 60 miles from McMurdo Sound. The latest U.S. surface vehicles, says Admiral Tyree, do not rival the luxurious ice-yachts that the Russians drove to the Pole last season, but they can be carried in airplanes and therefore can start explorations from any smooth stretch of ice. Another major U.S. effort will be an attempt by the icebreakers Glacier and Staten Island to smash their way to the coast of the Amundsen Sea. Because of dense pack ice, no ship has ever crossed this...
...goes the normal routine, but beneath the spread of idiosyncracy in Skelton's life there has been true misfortune; often he retreats to the toy-filled room of his late son, Richard, who died of leukemia in 1958. He sits there and broods for hours. Once Skelton kept a small trailer at the back of his property and would close himself away in it for days at a time...
Falling Like Rain. Skelton, the Bel Air millionaire who recently gave away one of his three Rolls-Royces, was born so poor that he sang for pennies in the streets of Vincennes, Ind. when he was seven. His father, a circus clown, had died before Richard Skelton was born, and when Red was ten he ran away from home to join a show-business type known as Dr. R. E. Lewis-an itinerant medicine man who peddled a solution of water, sugar and Epsom salts called the Hot Springs System Tonic. Mississippi showboats, minstrel shows and vaudeville later gave...
...years after they were divorced and he married Girl-about-Hollywood Georgia Davis. But even as Edna helped guide him toward the stability of oil wells and real estate holdings (he even owns his own film studio now), she could not overcome his deeper fears. According to a friend, Skelton feels that vague assailants known as "they" have always been after him. He once went around with a suitcase full of cash, explaining: "They won't get this away from...
Soundest Proof. Between Edna and Georgia, Skelton filled in with alcohol, but now drinks very little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might disillusion his followers. When he is in Las Vegas, the hotel management installs a slot machine in his room, last month turned back to him $350 he had lost while playing his enormously successful engagement at The Sands...