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...each boat a radioman worked hour after hour, sent into the ether offers to Dr. Gunnar Horn, scientist aboard the Bratt-vaag, for "exclusives" on the story, pictures, diary. Each pleaded with him for a midocean rendezvous at a designated point in the Arctic. Each could only hope and pray that the message would be received, that the Brattvaag would be there, or that they would happen upon...
...bodies, well preserved. From the clothing of one the discoverers took a pedometer, excitedly read the engraved name of Salomon August Andree. A 33-year mystery? was solved. They knew for certain now that the other two were the bodies of Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg who, with Swedish Scientist Andrée, vanished in 1897 in an attempt to fly across the North Pole in a balloon...
Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...
...question attracted most public interest: You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are: 1. A brilliant scientist 60 years old. 2. Two half-breed guides ages 58 and 32. 3. The scientist's wife-interested mainly in society matters, age 39. 4. Her little son, age six. 5. The girl you are engaged to marry. 6. Your best friend, a young man of your...
...that the leader should remain. There is little probability that the son could stand the hardship. He would be too poor a risk. His mother probably would not wish to be separated from him and it would not be advisable to separate them. I should not select the scientist of sixty since presumably most of his work would have been achieved. I should select the young scientist, not because he was my best friend but because of his promise to the scientific world, and I should select the young girl whom I was engaged to marry...