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Flight of legend -- or of imagination? A Byrd scion defends explorer's Pole log
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The long-lost flight log of Adm. Richard E. Byrd has done more to
taint his North Pole trip of 1926 than whispers ever could, but the
explorer's Boston-area relatives have responded by embracing his
legend and questioning his critics.
Leverett Byrd, a grandson of the famed adventurer, rejects the
recent allegation that Adm. Byrd knew he had fallen short of the
pole on May 9, 1926, and altered the data to show he had flown to the
top of the world.
"We always believed that you can't question the admiral's
integrity," said Leverett Byrd, 43, in the family's first response to
the charge. "What ...
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Making Christ: Alice Meynell, poetry, and the eucharist.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature
; ...ritual. Christianity grounds Meynell's feminism and her socialism...incompatible elements to Meynell, indeed quite the reverse...ourselves as part of humankind. Meynell was born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson in 1847. Her early life...
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A misfit poet of heaven: ne'er-do-well Francis Thompson wrote the still-haunting 'Hound of Heaven'.(Opinion & ARTS)(Biography)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...thrust in. The door closed but Thompson had not entered. Again it opened...stage of physical collapse." Mr. Meynell and his wife, the poet Alice Meynell, gradually began to take responsibility for Thompson and continued to do so for the...
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Quarrels and coteries in the 1890s.(England)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...the Rhymers' Club, the 'Valistes' (Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon), Francis Thompson and the Catholic circle surrounding Alice and Wilfred Meynell, and the Wilde and Whistler camps. Recognition of the complex motives behind the quarrels...
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The poets and poetry of the 1890s - a millennial view.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...poets, such as Housman, Hardy, Phillips, Binyon, Thompson and time-transcending Yeats. Neither should one forget...the last century's final years. Olive Custance, Alice Meynell, Dollie Radford, and the twain - Katherine Harris...
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