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...Mountain Mouse. By then the fog had lifted, leaving the air crystal clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain...
...Manhattan's Steuben (rhymes with "new Ben") Glass Inc. last week showed off its 16 new designs for the fall and winter trade. Recessed into the store's grey, black and white walls, or set out on square pedestals and tables, the glassware ranged from a chubby crystal mug ($8.50) to a graceful three-tiered waterless fountain...
...customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...
Houghton, Gates and Waugh worked out new designs by letting the pure colorless crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...
...Ambition. Curt LeMay's fierce single-purpose first showed itself back in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Boyhood friends recalled that he paid girls little attention, preferred to spend his leisure building crystal "wireless" sets or prowling through the hills of southern Ohio with a gun and a bowie knife...