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...necessary for Norway to annex legally the unexplored north polar region is for the Norge to fly over it, dropping a sufficient number of flags. Already King Haakon's realm embraces the south polar cap, discovered and claimed for Norway by the same Norseman (Amundsen, 1911) who now sails aboard the Norge...
Tiny tots who have received ice cream aboard the Mayflower from "Captain Dolph" (TIME, Aug. 31), had they seen a photo of the stern visage of Captain Brown, might have lisped: "Will he therve ithe queam...
...hours, a distance that used to take Caesar's legions two months of forced marches. She headed out over the Mediterranean for Corsica's upper tip. Colonel Nobile christened her radio with a message to Premier Mussolini ? steaming to visit Italian possessions in Africa aboard the battleship Cavour ? that all was well...
Among those aboard the Norge was a stalwart named Amundsen. Despatches did not give his first name, simply calling him "young Amundsen." Had he by chance been named Roald, confusion might have arisen, for "the" Roald Amundsen ? "Old Amundsen"* as the despatches may yet have it ? was at Oslo, Norway, being dined and wined by his countrymen, in company with his fellow explorer, the American Lincoln Ellsworth. They will join Colonel Nobile on the Norge at Spitzbergen and form a joint command...
Byrd. Tom, Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tom and Harry went back to their respective jobs (Harry is Governor of Virginia), and their brother Dick went ahead with his ? getting men and freight shaken down, stowed and shipshape aboard the S.S. Chantier as she steamed from the pier. The freight was particularly troublesome, and the ship paused overnight off Staten Island before heading across the ocean for Tromso, Norway, where Dick ? Commander Richard E. Byrd ? will lay in whatever supplies or equipment he still needs for his flights next month...