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...assistant, Charles Kipfer, had ballooned 51,700 ft. into the heavens- higher than man had ever before climbed -and had been unable to get down for 15 hr. because of a faulty gas valve. But while the physicist Piccard was readying his new balloon for an ascent by a substitute, Mme Piccard relented...
...addition to the heavy clapper, which has struck the hours ever since the clock was installed in the tower just after the Civil War, the entire mechanism of the regulator clock, which is suspended 60 odd feet above the platform, was lowered and removed. Only by a perilous ascent could the thieves have reached the aparatus, the removal of which is baffling University and local police, as there has not yet been found a trace or clue to solve the mystery...
Tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock in Brattle Hall Bradfor Washburn '33, who spent last summer in Chamonix filming a complete ascent of Mont Blanc, will give an illustrated lecture based on the work of the summer, showing colored slides as well as the film showing the complete climb from his Chamonix hotel to the summit of Europe's highest mountain peak. The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Christ Church, will be given for the benefit of the church charity fund...
...addition to the films of Mont Blanc, Washburn will describe and show motion pictures of an ascent of the Grepon, the well-known Chamonix aguille to the north of Mont Blanc which remained unconquered until 1881. The history of the region, which Washburn looked in to during the summer, will also form a part of tomorrow's lecture. Tickets for the lecture...
Helping to speed the Browns on their ascent are the Rockefeller, Rosenwald, Carnegie, Peabody, Slater, Jeanes, Phelps-Stokes, du Pont and Duke philanthropic foundations. Each foundation develops some function of the Browns' wellbeing. The Julius Rosenwald Foundation, for example, in co-operation with States and counties has established 5,000 primary schools for colored children, at least one in almost every county of 14 Southern States. Negroes gratefully call Mr. Rosenwald, whose mail order catalogs they used before they could use his textbooks, "Cap'n Julius...