HEROES: Homing Byrdmen

Twoscore lusty, hungry-eyed men knew last week what it is like to see the brown earth and green-growing things after 15 months amid ice, snow, rocks, and the winds of the end of the world. They were the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, heroes by radio and the world press to all civilization. The only two hotels in that portion of civilization to which they returned— Dunedin, N.Z.—were both full. A convention of wool dealers was in the city. But the men found napered tables and sheeted beds awaiting them in hospitable private houses....

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