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...great Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. He has hit 33 home runs in 89 games-a pace which puts him six games ahead of Babe Ruth's majestic record of 60 homers, and there are some impetuous enough to suggest that Willie is the one to climb that Everest of baseball some...
From high in the Himalayas, a runner brought eight-day-old word that Sir Ed mund Hillary, 34, who one year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...
This is a year of firsts. Everest was climbed, then an Englishman ran a four minute mile. The odd Ibis-crowned building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets has been scaled innumerable times by men, but yesterday noon the first woman conqueror of the Lampoon Building, Adrienne L. deChetelat '46, posed for photographs in front of the well-traveled Ibis, which incidentally seems to be facing the CRIMSON Building again...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...