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Into Churchill, Man., at sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole...
...midst of black despair, Chopin's fortune changed. Baroness de Rothschild invited him to play at a soiree. Instantly he was Society's pet, besieged by highborn ladies who begged him to give them lessons. Then, like a villain in a play, George Sand strode into his life, flaunting her male attire, puffing at a black cigar. According to Author Murdoch, that bestselling novelist was "an odd mixture of vulture and vampire." Once a lover was discarded, she used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going...
...years Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company had a villain without peer. He seemed kindly enough backstage but when he strode before an audience as Baron Scarpia, Chief of the Roman Police in Puccini's Tosca, he became so sinister and malevolent that he set an all-time standard for that melodramatic role. Antonio Scotti was stabbed by 17 different Toscas from the time the opera had its U. S. premiere in 1901 until he sang his farewell (TIME. Jan. 30, 1933). Last week when the Metropolitan revived Tosca for the first time in three years, there...
Puffing nervously at a thin cigar, vigorous, talkative Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) strode about the galleries of the National Academy of Design, of which he is president, last week on the Academy's 110th varnishing day. Buttonholing critics and newshawks he kept insisting...
With an umbrella, two walking sticks and an escort of 15 newshawks, Novelist Herbert George Wells strode up & down the deck of the Bremen as she steamed into New York Harbor. "Did you know that Rasputin's daughter is on the boat?" asked a newshawk. Mr. Wells did not, wished he had. Off to the lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin...