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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there will soon advance the most elaborate party of exploration the world has ever seen-the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Seventy men and 75 dogs are prepared to travel 20,000 miles (round trip), build a village in a frozen continent, roam over some 4,600,000 square miles of unknown territory for a year and a half. Almost incidental is their purpose of flying over the South Pole. No expedition ever departed with such vast objects, or with such luxurious equipment...
Distinctions are unknown to him. President Coolidge is his good friend. When Paul Jr. wrote a poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...
...Ostrow, Poland, a Mme. Niklos and her 4-year-old child and a M. Graf were recently poisoned with prussic acid "by a person or persons unknown...
...Unknown to Feng, the "Number-One-Boy" got Gailey to come at 3 a. m. to prepare the icecream which Feng had insisted upon having...
...compounds were prepared under the direction of Professor A. B. Loevenhart of Wisconsin. He believes the conquest of African sleeping sickness would be equivalent to the discovery of a continent. But more than Africa is at stake. Before the War the tsetse fly was unknown in Arabia; in recent years it has turned up there. Also strange new diseases of camels have developed in Palestine, similar to sleeping sickness; caused by trypanosomes. Finally, laymen are startled when Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas tells them that: "In prehistoric times this fly lived in the Americas and fossils of some twenty-odd species have...