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...Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will have accomplished what the great explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton called the "last grand land journey left...
...study of radioactivity in foods, the Food and Drug Administration hit upon a rare source of canned foods unquestionably packed before the advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America...
...four Shackleton bombers dropped 93 500-lb. bombs on Danaba, and Venom fighter pilots followed up, pouring 72 rockets into the village; for best effect the operation was spaced over six hours. The demonstration left British observers cold. Said the London Times correspondent: "Curiously obsolete . . . and bound to provide the Yemen with handsome propaganda." But somewhere up in their hills the tribesmen had seen an air show unique in its time: a performance which cost the R.A.F. $85,000, but demolished only ten of Danaba's 15 houses...
...energetic parts of the production are the Raffle and If You Haven't Got a Sweetheart Ballets, where Rita Karlin dances off with a good chunk of the show. I'll Buy You a Star and Love Is the Reason are songs with catchy tunes and lyrics, but neither Shackleton nor Miss Blondell are able to display them...
...Broadway musicomedy Where's Charley?, on which it is based: Allyn McLerie as Charley's comically deadpan girl friend; Horace Cooper as her fiercely mustachioed, fortune-hunting Uncle Spettigue, who woos Charley's aunt in a series of galloping Mack Sennett chases; and Robert Shackleton as Charley's singing roommate...