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...Burwash, leader of the party, set out on foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow and ice which neatly covered the mounds, they found skeletons of men. Tucked away in a cairn of rocks was a faded blue jacket, part of a tent. They had discovered the last camping ground of the Franklin Expedition, which set out from England 85 years ago to find a northwest passage to the Pacific...
...four breeds of dog currently regarded by U. S. dealers as "most fashionable" are all terriers: Scottish, Cairn, Sealyham, wire-haired fox. Most of the best-bred Scotties in the U. S. last fortnight foregathered on a terrace of Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Button's Long Island estate and permitted Dr. Clarence Cook Little, onetime president of the University of Michigan, now managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to compare their little black perfections in the Specialty Show of the Scottish Terrier Club, No. 1 event of the U. S. Scotty season. While...
...Prince's plane landed virtually on his own lawn, at Windsor Great Park. His pet Cairn terrier, Cora, barked a joyous welcome. His brothers, the Duke of York and Prince George, greeted him, whisked him away to Fort Belvedere where his parents waited...
...possible to spend the day outside the shelter of the camp. One group under the leadership of Dr. Parejas crossed Robson Glacier and climbed the Lynx. Traversing its summit and the neighboring ridge, they reached a previously unclimbed peak on the summit of which they built a cairn as a record of their presence. To this unnamed summit the name of "Mount Harvard" was joyously though unofficially attached by the members of the climbing party. In the meantime another group ascended Mumm Peak and looked down from its summit upon Mural Glacier, one of the finest of the glaciers...
...year ago in Britain the sheep-worrying propensities of Alsatian Shepherds were being bitterly discussed. On the side of the Alsatians was Edward of Wales. Temporarily deserting Cora the Cairn terrier (TIME, June 3), he bought an Alsatian as a gesture of confidence in the breed...