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...cause of topography, meteorology and zoology, scores of ships, thousands of men, were swallowed by the Arctic. Sweden's Dr. Wulff, crossing the Greenland icecap with Rasmussen, became' too tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire...
...union audience didn't take kindly to her remarks, but they listened. And when, after the speech, Mrs. Wulff got an anonymous threat in the mail, that didn't stop her either. Nothing could. She talked on street corners and at over 100 rallies. Eventually, Norma Wulff, the mother of two grown daughters, talked herself into a seat on the school board. Four years ago she became the first woman president of Cleveland's school board...
...first, the politicians on the board had baited her. They thought the old tricks would work: they had once driven another woman member off the board by making boisterous and vulgar remarks that sent her, weeping with embarrassment, from every board meeting. Such tactics didn't budge Mrs. Wulff...
Soon, once indifferent Clevelanders were jamming the meeting hall to hear what Norma Wulff had to say. She was garrulous and disjointed in her speech, but she made her points by the force of her enthusiasm and an irresistible supply of facts. Gradually accepting her as someone they could trust, teachers brought her stories of corruption, of campaign shakedowns, of unjust dismissals, and of board members who kept their relatives on the city payroll. The year she became president of the school board, Clevelanders went the whole way with her, voting the labor bloc out of office...
Politically a conservative Republican, she fights anyone-unions or real-estate boards-she thinks in the wrong. It keeps her busy. Up at 6 a.m.-long before her husband, who is a telephone company supervisor-Norma Wulff starts her day talking on her two private telephones. As she eats breakfast and washes the dishes, she has the receiver hooked to her shoulder, talking incessantly to teachers, newspapermen and P.T.A. women (she was president of the all-city P.T.A. before her election to the board...