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...insatiable climber whose Princeton ambition was to become a big-man-on-campus, Fitzgerald was embarrassed both by his Irish mother and by his father's job as a wholesale grocer's salesman. Years later he wrote to Novelist John O'Hara: "I am half black Irish and half old American stock with the usual exaggerated ancestral pretensions . . . Being born in that atmosphere of crack, wise crack and countercrack I developed a two cylinder inferiority complex ... I spent my youth in alternately crawling in front of the kitchen maids and insulting the great...
Leaving the rest of the party snug in the monastery, Dr. Charles Houston of Exeter, N.H. (son of Leader Houston) and Major H. W. Tilman, veteran British mountain climber, hired three Sherpa porters to do the heavy toting and set out for the mountain, which towered abruptly above them. They faced a part of Nepal which is wholly unexplored except by natives...
...Idea of the Whole. Jan Smuts had always been in the fray-as statesman and soldier, as author, orator, mountain-climber, scientist, philosopher. He had been such an indefatigable participant in his time's great events that the world came to think of him as one of its great men. More honored abroad than at home, for more than 40 years he made the voice of his far-off country heard in the world...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was back nosing around the mountains of Iran, "accompanied by a large group of guides, picked and trained by the American Intelligence ... In spite of his age, and he has already reached 50, Douglas has the effrontery to present himself as a mountain climber...
...vulgar social climber...