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Enthusiast. In Boston, Stenographer Phyllis Cheyne, a mountain climber, reached her 20th-floor office every day by climbing the stairs. She said...
Years ago a rich Denverite, George Ernest Cranmer, conceived the idea of making a theater of the red rocks. White-haired, eagle-eyed little Mr. Cranmer, retired broker, skier, skater, mountain-climber, became Denver's Manager of Improvements and Parks. Four years ago CCC, the National Park Service and the city began the $750,000 job of building the theater...
...gossip as a defeatist, a Chamberlain appointee whom soft-hearted colleagues did not wish to bounce until Chamberlain was bounced, a hard worker but a man in whom the offensive spirit burned somewhat low. It was said that because he is a social butterfly and his wife an American climber, he should be a great success in his new job, Governor General of New Zealand. This was not the story the press heard when Sir Cyril was Chief of Air Staff...
...Breezy Robert Ruliph Morgan ("Rulie") Carpenter, mountain climber and beast-shooter, married a sister of Pierre, Irénée & Lammot. Wilmington calls them "the lively Carpenters" to distinguish them from "the quiet [Walter] Carpenters." Says Rulie: "Walter always went in for heavier reading than...
...only a distinguished scientist, he has long been an active mountain climber and traveller, and became an intimate on such figures as Thomas Hardy. John Masecfield, and Julian Huxley...