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Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...
...Quebec and Montreal, opponents of Premier Bennett call him a social climber who has made his way into high British Conservative circles on frequent visits to the mother country. The Conservative group will attempt to steamroller through at Ottawa a tariff policy of Empire isolation?the policy against which Edward of Wales came out last week...
...uttermost parts of the world goes news of the election of Achille Cardinal Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, to be Rome's 261st Pope. Facts: he is 64, stocky, a onetime mountain-climber; famed as Papal Nuncio to seething Poland; a sober, scholarly cleric; a politically-minded, potent man of action...
...Masculine athletics enjoy the ardent patronage of His Holiness, a notable mountain climber when younger...
...Author is introduced to the U. S. by Author John Galsworthy as "a leading Polish author, a man of charm, energy and experience, a traveler, a mountain-climber, a writer of great gifts, whose work has been acclaimed in Poland. France and Germany." Like his hero, Author Goetel lives in Cracow, during the War was interned as a prisoner by the Russians, was sent to Asiatic Russia to work as a laborer, and met a Polish girl there. Unlike his hero, he married the girl. When you have read From Day to Day you will agree with Introducer Galsworthy...