Fun

Last month two gentlemen in natty dinner clothes were seen to scuttle out of the Pulitzer Building in Park Row, Manhattan. An automobile whisked them to the Battery, where they plumped into a Coast Guard Patrol cutter and vanished down murky New York Harbor chasing the fleet S. S. Aquitania, eastbound. . . . Last week, tired, grimy, grinning, the same two men returned to the Pulitzer Building in brown canvas flying suits, crouching in automobiles outridden by staccato police motorcycles.

They shook hands with Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.--a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions--Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan--had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans: "We've had fun."