Word: varick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crackling evening over White Bay, Newfoundland, last week. A lonesome woman, solitary radio operator on Horse Island, took a long bedtime look at a brig-antine's bulk in the broken ice 16 miles off shore. It was the Viking, seal hunting ship from which Varick Frissell* with a troupe of 15 last year took the major part of a talkie, to be named White Thunder. For continuity, he this year wanted shots of seals pupping and the pups learning to swim. He also wanted scenes of sealers dynamiting icebergs out of their ship's path. The Viking...