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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body of research associate, Paul K. Schiller, dead since he fell into a crevasse while skiing Sunday afternoon at Tuckerman's Ravine, was recovered yesterday by a veteran band of mountaineers...
Among Marine officers, only Vandegrift is considered, and Pratt describes his handling of the Guadalcanal action with fine clarity. The casualty figures underline the sharpshooter tradition perfectly. Japanese dead: 32,000; U.S.: 2,000. The second World War II choice is Bradley, of whom Pratt says flatly: "The ablest soldier in any service during World...
...Mark Van Doren's new biography of Hawthorne is no exception. When it deals with Hawthorne's life, it follows all the smooth old academic stereotypes. Whenever it touches on Hawthorne's writing, however, the book picks up interest at once. Of The Wives of the Dead, one of the most poignant stories in the English language, he says: "No reader of it will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal with...
...skier believed to be Paul K. Schiller, special researcher at the Psychology Lab, toppled into a 100 feet crevice near the top of Tucker man's Ravine headwall yesterday and is now feared to be dead...
Several skiers saw the accident on Mr. Washington and identified the victim as Schiller. They gave an alarm, and a crew of volunteer rescue workers was organized, only to be forced back by melting snow. Police believe the man is dead, because he struck several rocks in his fall...