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...third team in the first place tie in the National league are the Intellects, featuring Ford Nadhorny, former Yale fullback, Don Trimble, holder of the Harvard javelin record, and Cliff Crosby, former Harvard basketball player...
...less than 3½? . . . What else in the world can you buy for 3½? a pound? Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...
Within a radius of one mile of Union Square (Ground Zero), the city would appear to have been struck by a giant fist. Within that radius would be the lofty Empire State Building, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building; the teeming cliff dwellings of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town; Klein's department store; 14th Street's subway complex; a labyrinth of gas mains, water lines, telephone cables, electric wires; 55 elementary schools, high schools and trade schools; 17 universities and private schools; twelve of the city's hospitals...
...Reynolds and Stephen Wasserman packed their climbing gear and headed up 14,496-ft. Mt. Whitney, highest peak in the U.S. About 10,000 feet up, they abandoned the easy trail to the top and decided to scale Whitney's sheer, slippery 1,400-ft. east face, a cliff which had been scaled only once. They did not return...
...afternoon last week, searchers found the broken, frozen body of Stephen Wasserman. He had fallen 800 feet. Two days later, searchers found the body of Topper Reynolds jammed into a crevice high up on the cliff. Libby Holman, who had hurried home from Europe, got the bad news as she stepped from her plane, and a few moments later she collapsed...