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...Manhattan last week pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
Today at 8.30 o'clock. H. W. Poor will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Scenic America". His talk will deal primarily with the National Parks, Grand Canyon, and the Indian Detour. The lecture is made possible through the courtesy of the Santa Fe Railway System...
...Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many of them had been a canyon never to be crossed...
...word on "dolts-in-the-mountains." Your paragraph (TIME, Sept. 5) was excellent. (Mr. Miller [TIME, Oct. 10] to the contrary.) I am a mountaineer, also a life pupil in Luther Burbank's "University of Nature"; know the Grand Canyon, too. Have had opportunity to observe thousands of people as They drank in, individually, some of Nature's great spectacles...
...trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above sea level. Never before, President Coolidge stated, had he climbed so high...