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8 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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An insight from Kiwi actor Sam Neill when he played General John MacArthur in the TV adaptation of Agatha Christie s And Then There Were None.
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February 8, 2021
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A wallet that was lost in Antarctica in the 1960s has been returned to its rightful owner. Paul Grisham is now 91-years-old and lives with his wife in San Diego County. In 1967, Grisham was a Navy meteorologist working at McMurdo Station on Ross Island, the southernmost town on planet earth. When his assignment was done, he returned to his family in San Diego County, but his wallet stayed behind. On Saturday, the wallet arrived in the mail. It was found behind a locker during the demolition of a building at the Antarctic Naval installation. Among the items still inside the wallet were Grisham’s Navy ID, his driver’s license, a tax withholding statement, and a recipe for homemade Kahlua. There was no cash, in fact, Grisham and his fellow Naval personnel never carried cash because there was nothing to buy.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
At their home in San Carlos on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in San Diego, Calif., Paul Grisham and his wife Carole Salazar look over his wallet and the items that were inside when he lost the wallet back 1968. Back in 1968, Navy Lt. JG Paul Grisham spent a year stationed in Antarctica as a meteorologist. When he returned to California after 13 months on The Ice, as he calls it, his wallet had disappeared. A couple weeks ago, his wallet was found in a building being torn down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica and recently returned back to him. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)
Navy Veteran Reunited with Wallet Lost in Antarctica 53 Years Ago
Paul Grisham holds his 1968 Navy ID card at his home in the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego, Calif., Feb. 3, 2021. Grisham’s wallet was missing for so long at the bottom of the world he forgot all about it. Fifty-three years later, the 91-year-old has the billfold back along with mementos of his 13-month assignment as a Navy meteorologist on Antarctica in the 1960s. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
6 Feb 2021 The San Diego Union-Tribune | By Pam Kragen
In October 1967, Navy meteorologist Paul Grisham shipped out to Antarctica, where he worked as a weather forecaster for a science station and airport on Ross Island. Thirteen months later, he returned to his family in sunny California, but his wallet never left.