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...water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
...Francisco and Chestnut Hills, Mass, have the world's only official Christian Science sanatoriums. But any Scientist may set up a sanatorium or nursing home to be operated on the principles of his Mother Church, governed only by State law. Such institutions are scattered over the U. S. and England. To one of them, Ten Acres near Princeton, N. J., last June was taken Charles E. Berton, 20, his neck fractured in a diving accident (TIME, July 3). He was put to bed, given whatever liquid nourishment he could swallow. The rest was left to God and prayer...
...whales breathe is a subject which has interested Scientist Alec H. Laurie of London. Aboard a floating whale oil factory off South Georgia, Antarctica, he sampled and studied the lungs and blood of scores of fresh-killed blue whales. He has reported his findings to Nature. Since whales are air-breathing mammals, Scientist Laurie expected to find, in the blood of whales fresh-killed and captured after diving deep, large quantities of dissolved nitrogen, forced into the blood by submarine pressure. Such was not the case. In most samples there was even less nitrogen than is soluble in whale...
...father (onetime professor of Obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania) through utility and mining interests, particularly by shrewd investments in Utah copper. Claim holders listened to his advice as to an oracle. His friends considered his record as an investor as spotless as his reputation as a scientist. Nevertheless they were surprised at the size and liquidity of his holdings when he died. He had some French gold, a sheaf of Bank of England notes, accounts in one British and nine U. S. banks. A bachelor, he divided most of his $10,000,000 hoard between the American Philosophical Society...
...Fairchild, gets a radio bearing from the Jellinge and tries his hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge of a Pan American East Greenland Expedition with a base camp about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University...