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...religious viewpoint was a symposium of personal credos by 38 assorted intellectuals which was published this week.* For only one of the 38, Catholic Jacques Maritain, believes firmly in a personal God or in traditional Christianity. As individual as their authors, who range from Humorist James Thurber to Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the credos still managed to agree that the world's state is parlous, that organized religion offers no real solution...
Noble-browed Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 59, published a book about Iceland (Iceland: The First American Republic), joined Local 537 of the New York College Teachers Union, because "as yet there is no union for polar explorers...
...flute playing and the frozen North, fortnight ago finished two murals in the smooth, decorative style for which he is famed. One showed the first airmail delivery among Alaskan Eskimos, the other the same event in Puerto Rico. Neither attracted much attention until last week hale, old, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson opportunely happened by and disclosed that one of Rockwell Kent's murals contained the nearest thing to a cryptogram now on view on Washington walls...
Walters' Iceland. Eighteen bright, loosely painted landscapes made up a show at the Kleemann Galleries. Most interesting fact about them was that they were views of a land almost unknown to the U. S.-Iceland. Enthusiastically Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote a long foreword for the catalog and elaborate footnotes to explain how well Artist Emile Walters had caught the brilliance, clarity and absence of perspective in the Arctic landscape...
...Verville shot a pair of wolves that rushed him. The bitch supplied them meat for two days. Near Storkersen Bay they visited Alex Stefansson. Vilhjalmur Stefansson's son by an Eskimo woman...