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...most unblushing piece of pseudo-nursery nonsense since 1939's Three Little Fishies. I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat, a baby-talk duet between a nasal, lisping little bird named Tweetie Pie and a gravel-voiced cat named Sylvester (both parts sung by Radio Actor Mel Blanc), had passed the quarter-million mark in record sales, stood second on the British hit parade...
Snowy Plume. Dr. Houston and Major Tilman camped on a high ridge and climbed to about 19,000 ft. to study the south face of Mt. Everest. Even at this great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi...
...toward Geneva with 40 Pakistani seamen bound for England to man the newly launched freighter Queen City. A monk in the lofty monastery of St. Bernard thought he heard a noise. Two days later the Constellation's wreckage was sighted on the 15,781-foot peak of Mont Blanc by a pilot in a sport plane...
...Mountain Law. In the winter thick snows rest on Mont Blanc so lightly that the vibration of a man's voice can bring them cascading down in lethal tons. It was almost certain that nobody in the plane, even had he survived the crash, could have lived for two days on the mountain. In the valleys below Mont Blanc, however, there is an unwritten law that when a man is lost on the mountain, somebody must go after him. In Chamonix, sharp, energetic little Rene Payot, first Alpinist of France and chief instructor at the army's mountaineering...
...parrot will visit large drugstores, perform at conventions, etc., and may be presented on radio and television. The Le Blanc Corporation has a triple A high credit rating...