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...remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over the North Pole from his expedition . . . along the Asiatic coast...
...about World War II flying make dull reading, perhaps because aerial combat had become so formalized that one account seems pretty much like another. But Editor Jensen has dug up two first-rate items for his closing sections. Someone Like You is a poignant sketch of battle fear by Roald Dahl, a onetime R.A.F. pilot. And in The Three Secrets of Flight, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a onetime test-pilot, offers a superbly lucid discussion of the psychological adjustments men must make to survive...
...Roald T. Vinnard, now a general surgeon in Fresno, Calif., saw a lot of this sort of thing as a resident physician in big New Orleans and Los Angeles hospitals, and it infuriated him. In Postgraduate Medicine, he tells why: there is no need to treat a dogbite differently from any other flesh wound; this has long been known to medical science, but too many doctors are still using oldfashioned, discredited methods...
...share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...
...Antarctic is no place for amateurs; and softspoken, leathery Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...