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...joined Waterman Pen Co., Inc. in May 1952 as executive vice president, moved up to the presidency last week. Yaleman Howse ('30) began his business career at Agfa-Ansco, later joined the Chicago management-engineering firm of Melvin J. Evans Co. In 1940 he became president of Argus, Inc., built up the company's sales from $1,000,000 to $10 million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point pen and last week introduced the Waterman...
...Everything Is O.K." Wood picked up their equipment, dug a flat ledge and pitched the tent. With Viereck's help, he dragged Argus to shelter and then tramped out a signal in the snow: HELP BROKEN...
They fell 1,000 feet, bouncing over the ice toward a sheer granite precipice. Fifty yards from the edge, Les Viereck fell into a crevasse and yanked the others to a stop. Wood was the only one able to stand up. Viereck was shaken and stunned. Argus was badly injured and Thayer was dead...
...tiny ledge they waited for help to come or for Argus to heal. They waited a week, but nothing happened. Once they saw Ginny Wood flying her light plane over the crags, searching, but she did not see them. Avalanches hurtled down the open slopes on both sides of their exposed ledge. On the sixth day they wrapped Argus in the air mattress and tents, tugged and slid him down another 1,000 ft. to the floor of Muldrow Glacier and set up camp there, away from the avalanches. Supplies were running...
Next day a helicopter picked George Argus off the lower slopes. Wood and Viereck had gone to McKinley Park headquarters for the "toughest part" of their ordeal: telling Thayer's widow of her husband's death. She asked that no more lives be risked to recover his body, buried on the avalanche-ridden slope. "He loved mountains, and that's where he'd want to stay," she said...