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A young Harvard graduate, Robert E. Lane, work-camp secretary of the International Student Service, arrived in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. last spring with an incredible proposal: a group of college boys & girls wanted the town to give them a tough job at manual labor-and they would pay for the...
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Adam was resold for about $8,000 to a British dress manufacturer named John Herbert, who shipped him to the U. S. on what he hoped would be a money-making junket. Last week Adam arrived in Manhattan, was unveiled to the U. S. public at 57th Street's...
A German mapmaker promptly labeled Wilkes's antarctic coastline "Wilkes Land," and cartographers of many another nation followed suit. But not the British. Long afterward an Australian named Sir Douglas Mawson went over the Wilkes route, claimed that Wilkes had made mistakes or misrepresentations. These were attributed by Wilkes...
Robert L. Heilbroner, New York; Lawrence B. Heller, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Edwin Hewitt, Chicago; Enno R. Hobbing, Reading, Pa.; Martin J. Lydon, Lowell; and Enrico A. Pepe, East Boston.