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...Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards, to his disappointment, he met a mariner who had been there before him: a Yankee named Nathaniel Palmer, skipper of a U.S.-flag sealer. Bellingshausen (clearly the kind of sportsman who would displease the Soviet Union today), magnanimously named the territory he had sighted after Palmer...
Hillman Husky. In Manhattan, Britain's Rootes Motors Ltd. showed off its new four-passenger Hillman Husky, an all-steel station wagon designed for the U.S. suburbanite and sportsman. Powered by a four-cylinder, 39-h.p. engine, the small Husky does up to 40 miles on a gallon, has a rear seat that folds down so that the car can carry up to 560 Ibs. of baggage. List price, lowest of the Hillman line: $1,445 f.o.b. port of entry...
Argentina's Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
Died. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 72, sportsman, patron of art and science, former head of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a heart attack; in Montego Bay, Jamaica. When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
Died. Alexis Thompson, 40, wealthy (an estimated $5,000,000 Inland Steel Co. fortune) sportsman and cafe socialite, former owner of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, onetime Olympic bobsledder; of a heart attack; in Englewood...