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Snug in a chateau facing Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, students of Geneva College for Women had a gay time talking French as well as English, dropping in on the League of Nations, making the most of their social opportunities-until the CzechoSlovakian crisis. After Munich, the Misses Burgess and Lux could find only six U. S. girls whose parents would let them go to Geneva. They padded their enrollment with four CzechoSlovakian girls on scholarships, opened the fall term, soon began to hear from the U. S. girls' parents. Each time Adolf Hitler made a speech, the parents...
...Mild. When he is not traveling, Paderewski lives in his 26-room villa Riond Bosson at Morges, Switzerland. Once the property of Fouche, Napoleon's Minister of Police, Riond Bosson overlooks Lake Geneva towards towering Mont Blanc. Paderewski has at different times bought half-a-dozen farms and country estates, including a large walnut ranch in California. But Riond Bosson has for 40 years been the nearest thing to a permanent home that Paderewski has had. There, with his sister...
...many memorials to Pope Pius XI, dead last week, least famed but most lofty perhaps is the Ratti Route, an Alpine trail on the way from Chamonix to the top of Mont Blanc (15,781 ft.), so named to commemorate the feat of Achille Ratti and a fellow priest, Monsignor Luigi Grasselli, two of the most adventurous mountain climbers in Italian history, who first blazed the trail in 1890. Another monument to the Pope's Alpine enthusiasm: a stone tablet in a little church at Macugnaga, at the foot of Monte Rosa, celebrating the first conquest of its highest...
...natured, accurately aimed Gallic pokes at Dictator Benito Mussolini's habit of forcing his Fascist Party chiefs to jump through burning hoops, hurdle bayonet rows and dive over tanks, bespectacled, stocky, 34-year-old French Minister of Education Jean Zay last week started up 15,782 foot Mt. Blanc. Early entrants for the stiff mountain climb had included Vice Premier Camille Chautemps and Minister of Public Works Ludovic Oscar Frossard (later resigned) (see above). M. Chautemps, however, wrenched an arm at tennis, dropped out. M. Frossard took a test climb, returned puffing, decided to fly over Mt. Blanc instead...
Accompanied by Mme Zay, 14 porters, 15 guides, 20 photographers, Mountain-climber Zay set out from St. Gervais, at the foot of Mt. Blanc, in midmorning. He arrived at the Tete Rousse shelter, 10,390 feet high, at 3 p. m. After a night's sleep he rose at 3 a. m., started up the last 4,000 feet of sheer, snow-clad rocks to the Vallot shelter. Then rain and fog set in. Guides declared further climbing dangerous. So Minister Zay, from 3,000 feet below, dedicated a glistening hospice constructed of duraluminum* erected at 14,312 feet...