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...game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize the area...
...mother, a onetime film cutter, turned the baby over to a guardian and Marilyn spent her childhood in a succession of foster homes. At 16, to avoid being sent to an orphanage, she married a young aircraft worker. The marriage lasted ten months and then Marilyn set out to conquer Hollywood. She studied stenography, got by as a part-time model and a movie bit player. Director John Huston let her play a small part in The Asphalt Jungle. When Fox Production Boss Darryl Zanuck saw her scenes he cried: "That's the girl...
...Crimson nine, still in fourth place in the Eastern League after Saturday's split with Yale, heads for Providence today for its second game with league-leading Brown. If the team can conquer its bobbling fits, which gave the Bruins a 4 to 3 win here last Wednesday, it will stand a good chance to knock Brown off the top rung in the Eastern League ladder...
Because Everest was still there last week, and because six British onslaughts on the mountain have ended in death or defeat, a party of Swiss Alpinists took off from Geneva for the long flight to India. Their plan: to conquer Everest from, a new, untried approach...
...onward billions! On billions! Conquer...