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Walters' Iceland. Eighteen bright, loosely painted landscapes made up a show at the Kleemann Galleries. Most interesting fact about them was that they were views of a land almost unknown to the U. S.-Iceland. Enthusiastically Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote a long foreword for the catalog and elaborate footnotes to explain how well Artist Emile Walters had caught the brilliance, clarity and absence of perspective in the Arctic landscape...
When? If? Such preliminary facts and the final reports to follow, go to the 58th & 59th floors of Manhattan's Chrysler Building into which Pan American moved its offices last week. There they are coordinated by famed Explorer Vilbrmir Stefansson, Pan American consultant, who advocated commercial arctic flying ten years ago. The coordinated data are analyzed by Chief Engineer Priester who knows about ships, men and operations; by Communications Engineer Leuteritz who knows about radio and navigation. Finally it goes to a spacious, buff-papered office on the 58th floor from which French doors open upon a balcony overlooking...
...Verville shot a pair of wolves that rushed him. The bitch supplied them meat for two days. Near Storkersen Bay they visited Alex Stefansson. Vilhjalmur Stefansson's son by an Eskimo woman...
...most significant changes in modern arctic exploration is the time element," continued Mr. Stefansson "Byrd was gone only about six months on his trip to the arctic, whereas the elder explorers used to stay away for five years or more." The reference to Byrd led to the interesting fact that the use of the radio in polar exploration increases homesickness, rather than diminishes it, as is commonly taken for granted by the public. If is a matter of actual record that Byrd had more trouble with his men being homesick in the one year that he was in Antarctica that...
Returning to the topic of polar exploration by air, Mr. Stefansson declared that the airplane is only a means of scouting or reconnoitering in the polar regions, not a means of real exploration. "Exploring a region by air is just like describing the botany of a country by flying over if," Mr. Stefansson said in conclusion