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"For truth--unlike the Roosevelt or the Hoover Administration--is eternal." Philosophically calm, thus concludes the communication, "Dissenting Zealots," published in yesterday's Mall columns. It certainly warms my heart to read such manifestations of benign simplicity, such expression of hopeful belief in our modern world or professed disillusionment. Just...
Mt. Everest was named for Sir George Everest who measured its height by trigonometry in 1841. At that time, and for decades thereafter, Tibet was almost as remote from the world as Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not...
For five days and five nights last week the 250,000 citizens of loud, lusty Memphis, Tenn. knocked off all work, played host to the bankers and businessmen, the planters and politicians, the farmers and their field hands. Negroes, white trash and riffraff of the entire mid-Mississippi Valley in...
The Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this...
From those misty beginnings down to Admiral Byrd's first Antarctic junket ("A splendidly equipped expedition") the long tale of man's investigation of his terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self...