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First there was Roald Amundsen, intrepid wanderer in frozen places, who had planted the flag of Norway on the nether extremity of the globe. Then there was Riiser Larsen, his airplane pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural...
Again the graduate and undergraduate editors of the Crimson gather to commemorate the intrepid little band of ten members of the class of 1874, who on the evening of January 23, 1873, launched the CRIMSON on its adventurous life. To the sole member of that group who will be present at this evening's dinner, the present editors of the CRIMSON extend their sincerest greetings. The memory of Henry Childs Merwin '74 can link together the first meeting of a CRIMSON board and tonight's gathering in the Sanetum. The intervening fifty-two years have been filled with journalistic alarums...
...begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant. They were unhurt. When they had fallen 1,000 feet, they had pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, descended easily. Both said that at no time had they lost consciousness...
...courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant...
...point of the journey, an intrepid journalist forced an interview...