Word: cabins
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Tuckerman's Ravine, a quarter of a mile from the cabin, provides most of the practice in ice climbing. Members climb up and above the side of the Ravine and over to Lion's Head on the other side...
Several members of the Mountaineering Club will ski and practice ice climbing during the vacation, operating from their base cabin on the flank of Mt. Washington. The H.M.C. cabin is reached by driving to Pinkham Notch, halfway between North Conway and Gorham, N. H. and then climbing with skins two and a quarter miles up Hoot Spur...
...spare-time composer who wrote most of his music early in the century, professional Insurance Man Charles Ives (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948) managed to anticipate most of his contemporaries. Often based on old hymn tunes, his music abounds in polytonal harmonies, complex rhythms; much of it is log-cabin crude and just as American. Symphony No. 3, finished in 1904 and revised in 1911, gathered dust in Ives's Connecticut barn until 1946, when it got its first performance and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The calm first movement is particularly prizeworthy. The National Gallery Orchestra (Richard Bales conducting...
Chatting with Novelist Edna Ferber, Alice Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, recalled a recent illness in an isolated western cabin: "There was a foot and a half of snow outside, and my temperature was 103. Of course, I had my own aureomycin with me, but I thought, 'Wouldn't it be strange if I died here in this log cabin?' " Quipped Author Ferber, "Just think what the headline writers would have done with the story. I can see it now, 'From White House to Log Cabin...
...drawn by one of his blooded road horses. He used to play golf on his private nine-hole course with his wife, Polly, but since her death last year has given up the game. Now he keeps fit raking leaves, laying stone walks to his favorite retreat, a cozy cabin overlooking a pond. His constant helpers in these weekend stints are A & P's President Ralph W. Burger and wife Margaret. After a brisk workout at raking and stone-setting, John...