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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...
...morning of Shaw's death, newsmen, who had stood a two-day deathwatch in the rain and fog outside the gates of the plain house called Shaw's Corner, were cheered at 4:30 a.m. by a sudden lifting of the fog. A half-hour later the stars were burning brightly when Housekeeper Alice Laden appeared at the gates and told the reporters, "Mr. Shaw is dead." Next day the world's newspapers were crammed with the highlights of his long life, restatements of his sauciest witticisms and the tributes of the great to a figure...
Wrong Airport. But what about MacArthur and what about Formosa? The question flapped along like the albatross as the Independence stuck her blue nose into the thick haze over Washington the next morning, passed over the fog-shrouded National Airport and landed instead at Andrews Air Force Base, twelve miles away (thus forcing Bess Truman, Secretaries Acheson and Snyder and the rest of the welcoming delegation to streak across town behind sirens). No one who knew Douglas MacArthur suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended...
...this month, younger opera lovers can hear the voice their elders have been talking about. Even though Esoteric has re-recorded its nine arias (including the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca) from 32-year-old cylinders, and Claudia Muzio's luscious voice is heard through a fog of needle scratch, her tones are full, even and velvety from top to bottom...
...team is not much interested in going to Hollywood. For one thing, they think a good deal of their success depends on their understanding of the British background. "Hollywood's idea of Britain is strictly Victorian," they feel. "You'd . . . have to stick in the inevitable London fog, Thames Embankment, or Cleopatra's Needle . . . There's no doubt you'd become a hireling...