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May 2, 1931

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AHRENBERG REACHES ICELAND ON FLIGHT; Crosses From Norway and Plans to Go On to Greenland Today to Rescue Courtauld. ICELANDIC PLANE AT COAST Ready to Hop Off From Water --British Are Believed Near Missing Man on Ice Cap. Plane Being Refueled. Radio Aids Flight. AHRENBER GREACHES ICELAND ON FLIGHT Hears Plane Took Off. Watkins Should Be Near Goal. Dog-Team Parties Set Out. Major Cotton May Join Search.

By Captain Albin Ahrenberg. Copyright, 1931, In the United States By the New York Times Company. Elsewhere By the Times, London. All Rights Reserved. Wireless To the New York Times

Brit Arctic Air Route relief expedition

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Phil Bruns

1931Phil Bruns, American actor and stuntman (died 2012)[†]

Philip Bruns was an American television and movie actor and writer. He portrayed George Shumway, the father of Mary Hartman on the 1970s comedic series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and Morty Seinfeld, the father of Jerry Seinfeld, in the 1990 second episode of Seinfeld.