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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Denver's Red Rocks | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: New Chief in the Air | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Dynasty Interrupted | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marks Is Guest of Honor at the Engineering Societies' Dinner | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

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