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Americans can stop worrying about the projected 1,500-mile highway to Alaska, because nature has provided another one, of which only 300 miles of road need to be constructed. So claims Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the July issue of FORTUNE. Most of his highway consists of the Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers. His 300-mile road would connect the two rivers. Says Stefansson: "In North America the Mackenzie River, second only to the Mississippi system, is the historic commercial highway of northwestern Canada. It begins to be navigable at the head of rail north of Edmonton, and flows almost...
Organized by Colonel Herman Beukema, professor of economics, government and history at West Point (see p. 56), the new educational program will run for two months, enable soldiers to hear such observers as Raymond Clapper, Hanson W. Baldwin, Carl Crow, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Since part of the course will be a day-to-day interpretation of current events, maps are being installed in soldiers' day rooms on which shifting battles can be checked and charted...
Marriage Revealed. Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 62; and Mrs. Evelyn Schwartz Baird, 28, his secretary; in Wellsville, Tenn...
...University and a famed geographer, to find a definition of the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Bowman first suggested the 26th meridian, which would still leave Iceland in Europe's hemisphere. When the 26th meridian proved unsatisfactory to the President, Dr. Bowman pondered some more, obligingly came up with Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's mid-channel theory. According to Explorer Stefansson, the line should run midway through the "widest channel" between Europe and the Americas, would give Iceland to the Western Hemisphere...
Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...