Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swansea, in Glamorganshire, to Southend at the mouth of the Thames, and all along the south coast of Britain, last week newsmen had passably good seats at the Battle of Britain. At Dover was the greatest concentration. Newsmen in tin hats and civilian clothes took their stand on Shakespeare Cliff, high above the English Channel, sat on camp stools and shooting sticks while British and German planes fought in the sky, amused themselves in slack intervals by giving names to Dover's roly-poly barrage balloons: King Lear, Lord Castlerose, Göring (painted with medals), Puddin...
...sweets shop at the foot of Shakespeare Cliff newsmen bought cigarets and ice cream, between raids, from an old woman who thanked them cheerily, told them that Hitler's war had saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly...
Roped together, Boyer and Miss Cedarquist got to within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more...
...dawn next morning, when the mayor of Salt Lake City stepped out of his automobile, he (and his relief driver, Cliff Bergere) had traveled 3,858 miles, had broken 21 world's speed records. Average speed for the 24 hours: 161.18 m.p.h., almost 4 m.p.h. faster than the 24-hour world's record Jenkins set on the same course three years...
...Omaha he tried settling down at his old trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils...