Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieut. Balchen, 28, the youngest member of the America's crew, was born in Tviet Hopedale, Norway, received his flying training at the Norwegian Naval Academy. It was he who suggested to Commander Byrd that he use skis instead of wheels on his polar plane. Lieut. Balchen came to the U. S. in 1926 to serve as test pilot and engineer in Anthony Fokker's company...
...Rapport, Polish, 22, of New York City, challenged Mr. Kelly to a polar marathon, claimed that Mr. Kelly's pretentions to the squatting championship were fraudulent in the extreme, inasmuch as he (Mr. Rapport) had once sat on a Parisian flagpole for 21 days. One Hugo Bihler, just-arrived German immigrant, who speaks no English, also challenged for the Sitting Sweepstakes, as did an unidentified Bostonian. Cried Mr. Kelly, belligerently, "Let those guys pick their poles and sit!" But none...
...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...
Culled as they are from the pages of Life, the several episodes from the Life Polar Expedition are fairly familiar and one may possibly be excused if upon second perusal the antics of Lieutenant Commander Marc Connelly, Ensign Thermaline and Bobby seem a trifle shopworn. To the uninitiated, may they bring the same joy they delivered to others in the days of their youth...
...despatch was from Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, black-bearded Australian soldier of fortune, and his sky pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, saying they had crawled safely off the Polar Sea after 17 days and nights of discomfort...