Large on a 1930 National Geographic Map of Antarctica bulked the Charles Bob Mts., Commander Byrd's way of thanking one of the backers of his first South Pole expedition. For a time Charles Victor Bob bulked equally large on the Manhattan scene.
A perfect flowering of the giddy '20s, he arrived from Nevada with a small fortune from promoting mining stocks, hired a press agent and proceeded to splurge. He gave banquets for bigwigs, planned a $50,000,000 corporation with Charles Lindbergh as president to control the nation's airways,* had a nasty squabble with Claude Neon (lights) over patents, ended a spectacular...
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