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...real work in the Arctic is just beginning," said Donald B. MacMillan yesterday in an interview with the CRIMSON. The noted Arctic explorer and scientist is appearing at Symphony Hall this afternoon to lecture on Labrador and Iceland...
...Modern scientists in the Arctic are better trained, and know exactly what they want. Besides having unlimited economic resources, the land north of the Arctic circle presents a tremendous area that has never been touched. Tidal observations by the late Dr. R. A. Harris of Washington have shown a vast land area between Alaska and the pole, none of which has ever been explored or exploited...
...nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired at $5 per day ran away after seeing their first cinema. It showed a fight and they thought that if Director Van Dyke had been as sympathetic as he pretended, he would...
...Koch, 40, has been poking around in the Arctic since he was 19. He sailed with the bicentenary jubilee "North-Around-Greenland" expedition (1920-23), later commanded three government geological surveys to East Greenland, the last in 1930. For that year the American Geographical Society awarded him its Charles P. Daly gold medal...
...report said a "heavy object'' brought up in a net had been identified as part of the plane, but had broken through the net and been lost again. The Norwegian Government wondered whether other identifiable wreckage had been found, ordered an investigation, stood ready to send the Arctic ship Fridtjof Nansen promptly to Bear Island...