Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Himalayas, has reigned as the highest peak in the world. It has never been climbed.* But a few pilots thought they had seen a higher one among the Amne Machin Mountains of West China. When peripatetic Pen-Manufacturer Milton Reynolds went looking for such a peak (TIME, April 12), he ran into trouble with the Chinese government, failed to get anywhere or prove anything. Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins...
...week starting Friday, April 23. Times are E.S.T. through Saturday, April 24; E.D.T. thereafter; subject to change...
After six weeks of reading about every deep breath and every bad pitch their baseball heroes had taken, the fans settled down to watch the real thing. This week the season was on. Even the Red Sox's taciturn Manager Joe McCarthy (TIME, April 5) broke silence: "The Yankees? Oh, yes, the Yankees. Well, I'll tell you. I believe this Cleveland club will be up there. They've got Feller, y'know." Another team to watch was the pitcher-rich Detroit Tigers...
...word cancer. But last week a citizen had only to twist a dial to hear it discussed at the top of radio's voice. Between plugs for coffee and candy bars, radio stations were ballyhooing, with every attention-getter in the book, the American Cancer Society's April drive...
More people, said Petersen, kill themselves, go insane or die of natural causes during April, May and June than at any other time of year. Spring fever is no laughing matter, says Anti-Vernalist Petersen: the human frame, drained of energy and vitamins during the winter, is a pushover for physical and mental ailments. He did not prescribe sulphur & molasses, but to his faithful he offered a further seasonal sentiment: a majority of the world's criminals, and most of its geniuses, were conceived in the spring. Dr. Petersen, 61, was born in March...