Explorers Gather as Club Maps Wider Realms of Study
The club spans diverse expeditions with figures like Peter of Greece and Denmark and Eigil Knuth mapping Arctic regions and Tibet borders. Members explore geography, anthropology, astronomy, animal collecting, and the ionosphere, seeking unknown patterns across continents and seas.
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Patone
Funale
Aig
Witacks
Peter
Greece
Denmark
Tibet
Louis ‘Agathon
Alaska
Eigil Knuth
Peary
Dia
Tess Meenas
Africa
Theodore
Honsevelt
Roy Chapman
Audecis Heyerdahl
Bob
Bartlett
Tahee
Wileworth
Matt.Hanson
Binée
Fruechen Bay explorer suffers frost injury and self amputation
A historical fragment recalls an explorer named Fruechen Bay who became fatigued in the Arctic conditions. He slept in snow and woke to a frozen left foot with gangrene spreading. He removed his own foot with pliers and a hammer before a doctor amputated it later. The account notes his sense of humor despite the ordeal.
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Ress
Maliger
Hudson
Paige
Radford to stay as Joint Chiefs chief for two years
Washington reports Admiral Radford will enter a second two year term as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Despite talk he favors a hard line against Communist expansion in Asia, Radford denies any warlike stance. President Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Wilson express full confidence in his advisership as his term expires August 15.
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Washington
Radford
Chalisai
Joint Chiefs
Stattswith
United States
Red China
Asia
Wilson
Eisenhower
Muich
Aes
U.S
State Department
Franco orders nationwide drive to wipe out illiteracy in Spain
Generalissimo Franco decreed that Spain must end illiteracy within two years. Education minister Joaquin Ruiz-Gimenez announced measures including fines for parents who fail to send children to school and a plan to dismiss illiterate workers who do not learn to read and write. The government will boost school meals, multiply classes for illiterates, and award prizes to municipalities with best results while building more schools to meet rising population demand.
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John Gulmer
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Spain
SVG Felicator
Joaquin, Ruiz-Gimenez
Franco
Serra
Faiid
Ian
Ime
Mediately
Formosa journalist recalls anti landowner drive and exile
The piece profiles a Formosan publisher and her sister in law linked to Chou En Lai who fled Shanghai with her 12 year old daughter aboard the last ship before Nationalist retreat. Now with Madame Chiang Kai-shek loyalists she tends wounded soldiers and aids the anti aggression league. Her father urged her to leave the house after a public trial.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chou
En-Lai
Gant
Ane
Persecu
Red China creates central science body to guide research
Peiping reports a new central organization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences to direct all scientific work with four departments covering physics mathematics chemistry biology geology geography technical research and philosophy social sciences. A Soviet Academy of Sciences delegation will oversee development.
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Hong Kong
NANA
Red China
Peiping
Chinese Academy ‘of Scences
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Snail Research Reveals Slow Life and Lost Memories
Paris reports a new 410 page study by Jean Cadart for the Paris Museum of Natural History on snails. The work notes snails dislike wind or drought and that France eats 600 million annually with snails described as slow due to slow respiration and habit.
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Paris
France
Cadart
Searl
P. A. Fischer
iCadart
Sonal
Wacs at Ft McClellan Transform Wartime Image at 13th Anniversary
At Ft McClellan the Women’s Army Corps now numbers about 1300 and runs a full training center with 30 barracks kitchens dayrooms and lounges. Lt Col Eleanor Sullivan recalls how facilities and drills have shifted from World War II norms to modern morale building and refined dress while ceremonies and social routines unfold after duty hours.
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McClellan
Ala
Wacs
Hattie Carnegie
Women’s Army Corps Center
Ft. McClellan
WAC
Eleanore C. Sullivan
Radcliffs
Crater
Jet stream as aerial highway eyed by pilots
Honolulu June 18 a report notes pilots both military and civilian are studying the jet stream as a high altitude air corridor across the Pacific. Early tests show speeds surpassing ordinary cruise without definitive core-route flight yet.
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Honolulu
Pacific
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China Post
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Bous
Red
China
Big Wace Center
Reese Cleghorn
Col. Sullivan
Ft. Des Moines
A.F
By Roy Essoyan
Air Force
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