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Apropos the Sir Hubert Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition to the North Pole (TIME, March 23), mention has not been made of The Great Stone of Sardis written in 1891 by Frank Richard Stockton, journalist and literateur (1834-1902).
Died. Willard I. Grimmer, 27, quartermaster of the submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cruise under the ice across Earth's north polar cap this summer (TIME, March 23); after falling overboard as the Nautilus was entering New York harbor. W7hen Quartermaster Grimmer married one Mary Fountain...
The project has roused much skepticism. Most doleful thought: the sub- marine will be fouled bv ice formed on its rudders and hydroplanes, will be unable to maneuver, will be frozen into any hole she makes in the ice. Warrant for the trip's success lies in Explorer Wilkins' caution...
Early Hearstian thrills became evident while the ship moored at Brooklyn. To hook the projected trip up with some-thing everyone knows, Jean Jules Verne, a staid public prosecutor of Rouen, France, imported for the occasion, was to christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which...
Because Lincoln Ellsworth, who, with the late Captain Roald Amundsen and General Umberto Nobile flew in the Norge across the North Pole in 1926, contributed a large amount toward the $250,000 which Sir George Hubert Wilkins is raising to take an old Navy submarine renamed the Nautilus, across the...