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Before getting down to work. Dr. Belknap last week was jaunting in the Arctic. With Marie Peary Stafford, Arctic-born daughter of the discoverer of the North Pole, and her two sons, he went to build a tower of rocks on snow-covered Cape York in northwest Greenland, in Admiral Peary's memory...
Governor Nielsen's "most thoughtful act," wirelessed Mrs. Stafford to the New York Times last week, "was to lend us as interpreter and guide, old Inughito, who had been mess boy on the Roosevelt with Admiral Peary during her last winter at Cape Sheridan. The meeting between Captain Bob and this faithful native of the old days was a most touching one, as the two men flung their arms about each other in a welcome that came from their hearts...
Right & Wrong? Amid the angry murmurs of Conservative M. P.'s, bland Labor M. P. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, onetime Solicitor General, rose and gave his learned opinion that the Free State has the right to abolish the oath its Deputies and Senators swear to His Majesty, this right resting squarely on the Statute of Westminister passed by the London Parliament (TIME, Dec. 7). Conservative Winston Churchill agreed...
While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
...brown pants. The artist was Albert Operti, a Peary companion on two Polar trips. Particularly interested in that painting is Josephine Diebitsch Peary, the widow, first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition. She lives at South Harpswell, Me. Next month her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Stafford, who was born "farther north than any other white person," and Mrs. Stafford's two sons are going sailing with Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett to Cape York on the Baffin Bay side of Greenland and there watch the construction of a monument to Peary...