Polar Pictures

History will record Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd not only as a dauntless expedition executive, as the first man to fly over both Poles, but as a character exceeded in lines of newspaper space during 1928-30 only by the U. S. President. For nearly two years the New York Times has carried a story on the activities of the Byrd expedition every day. By arrangement, 47 U. S. newspapers have done likewise.

Last week, for the first time since he passed out of sight into the Antarctic, several million newsreaders were given a chance to see pictures of the man they had read so much about for the past 19 months. Photographed as he arrived at Dunedin, N. Z. last month, Admiral Byrd, in sweater and dungarees, seemed to have changed little. The last stage of the photographs' journey was characteristic of the entire Byrd press exploit. Sent by ship from New Zealand, the pictures were picked up in Cristobal, C. Z. by Airman Lee Schoenhair, flown to Tela (Honduras), to Miami, to Richmond, to Newark. At Newark Airport agents from the Associated Press, Wide World Photos (New York Times) and the Paramount News divided them, raced to Manhattan to spread them nationwide. First to reach Manhattan was an Associated Press man on a motorcycle.

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