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...flashing a bright neon-lighted toast: "HERE'S GOOD LUCK TO YOU." One rainy night last week, its intermittent flash disclosed an odd, yet strangely familiar spectacle. A dark-haired youth was edging his way up a fire-escape ladder high on the 19-story Kentucky Hotel. The climber reached the top, took a quick step and balanced erect on a narrow ledge at the roof level-just as a 19-year-old soldier who called himself Louis Turini had balanced on a narrow ledge of Boston's Touraine Hotel and threatened to jump one drizzly evening last...
Schumann warned Americans that they should not be too hard on Europe in their demands for rearmament. He compared Europe's position to that of an injured mountain climber, who has just reached the stage of throwing away his crutches. Then, all of a sudden, he is told that he has to climb a further mountain. He will go out and do all he can, but that will not be as much as before the accident. "He needs a stronger rope and a friend's arm to make the necessary effort...
Several professors plan trips across the Atlantic. Hassler Whitney, professor of Mathematics, will go on a mountain climbing tour in the Swiss Alps. An accomplished climber, Whitney is a member of the American Alpine Club...
...done the most creditable job. John P. C. Train '50, in a semi-Liebling-like analysis of Mexican newspapers, displays again the effortlessness and sophistication which make most of his stuff easy and delightful to read. There is a story by Oliver Allen '43, concerning a social climber's campaign to ease himself into the New York Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society...
There are always guests for lunch. Through one week the visitors' list may note such diverse personalities as General and Mrs. Eisenhower, a mountain climber just returned from the Himalayas, and the Comtesse de Paris, some of whose husband's Bourbon ancestors resided briefly in the Elysée. Most afternoons and evenings are packed with official receptions, dinners and speeches, but the President prefers a quiet evening at home-dining with Madame Auriol in a small bedsitting room. When he has no official engagement, he tries...