Word: vilhjalmur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, he and his wife moved to Teaneck, N.J., and then to a Manhattan apartment on 97th Street just off Riverside Drive. Their friends, who dropped in for informal Sunday-night literary sessions, included Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Captain George (now Sir Hubert) Wilkins, Poets Constance Lindsay Skinner, Sara Teasdale, Horace Gregory; literary critic-to-be Lewis Gannett; Author and Geographer Earl Parker Hanson; Latin celebrities like the painter Zuloaga and famed Bullfighter Juan Belmonte...
This strange region and its gradual discovery are the subject of To the Arctic!, which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson describes as "the best history of northern exploration so far written." New Jersey-born Jeannette Mirsky who, at 44, has never cried "Mush!" to a dog or put foot to floe, first published her book in 1934. But it was dropped by her publishers after the first printing, because the late...
...college, the aurora borealis was flashing across the skies; Hendricks took it as a good omen. At midnight he reached the home of another summertime neighbor and friend, Dorothy Thompson. She liked the idea, too, and agreed to help. So did Author Dorothy Canfleld Fisher, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
GREAT ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS (788 pp.)-edited by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison-Dial...
They were the first governors of the Arctic Institute of North America. This is a new Canadian-U.S. undertaking to study the north. Six governors-businessmen, scientists and diplomats-were appointed for each country. They included famed Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and General Manager Philip Chester of the Hudson's Bay Co., which has done business in the Arctic for 175 years...