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Bradford Washburn '33 youthful explorer and mountain-climber, will speak in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock tonight on "The Exploration of Mount Fairweather." The story of the unsuccessful attempt to climb this 15,330 foot Alaskan mountain will be illustrated by motion pictures. The speaker will be introduced by H. J. Coolidge '92, assistant curator in charge of mammals at the Zoological Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASHBURN TO SPEAK AT UNION THIS EVENING | 3/6/1931 | See Source »

From Wednesday, February 4, to Sunday, February 8, the Club has scheduled an expedition to Mount Washington. The group will climb the mountain by way of Pinkham Notch, headed by some experienced climber not yet chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOUNTAINEERING CLUB ELECTS NEW MEMBERS | 1/8/1931 | See Source »

...climbers-mere black dots- halt as one man, looking like rigid dolls. Then they dashed frantically to the left. The next moment a rolling cloud of snow preceding the avalanche swept down upon them and they vanished, completely blotted out like insects. "It was the most terrible spectacle I have ever witnessed. The roar grew louder as the clouds of snow swept nearer, moving with incredible velocity, while here and there vicious tongues of ice shot out under the confused jumble of great ice blocks rolling and sliding down." The dead: Chettan, oldtime porter, member of the last three Himalayan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kanchenjunga's Tithe | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Oilman Out | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...heir-apparent to the Van Climber (washing machine) millions elopes with a chorus girl. Parental displeasure is great. Public curiosity is greater. The Van Climbers disconnect their telephones, lock the crested gates of their country estate, refuse to be interviewed. For lack of facts, tabloids print lurid verbal composo-graphs, imaginary interviews, gossip gleaned in the Van Climber garage and scullery. Then the Van Climbers scowl and growl at the inaccuracy of the garbled stories, threaten to sue the offending journals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talleyrand Motel | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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