[Rockin Robbins]

I still have to give Shackleton first place among all-time Antarctic explorers but you finished what he proposed to do! He took a "failed" quest for the pole and turned it into a never to be challenged multi-year adventure that should have killed all of them three times over. Instead, he didn't lose a man. He traded one difficult goal for several impossible accomplishments. Congratulations for finishing Shackleton's work!

Anybody who is not familiar with Earnest Shackleton needs to request shore leave and read an account of a mission equal in every respect to traveling to the moon and back. Admiral Lockwood is issuing passes for anyone wishing to do this. I believe the best available book is Alfred Lansing's "Endurance." You won't believe it could possibly be true.