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Meanwhile, Arthur Neville, consigned to business, became prosperous and, like his father, mayor of the family's adopted city of Birmingham, where he tightened the hold of the Chamberlains on Birmingham elections. A far more glacial and forbidding character than his gentlemanly brother, Neville worked harder, became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1923, again in 1931. Last week, still Chancellor, it was he, not Austen, who was being groomed to be next Prime Minister of England and leader of the Conservative Party when Stanley Baldwin steps down...
...thousand miles due south of Manhattan lies Punta Arenas, largest town in Patagonia, southernmost city in the world. Few tourists find their way there. Patagonia is a forbidding land of glacial mountains, dense forests and windswept plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because they wanted to avoid trippers but because the idea ex- cited them, Herbert Childs and his newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting...
...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...
...confirmed pessimist as well as a distinguished, patient and learned anthropologist is Dr. Ernest Albert Hooton of Harvard University. Dr. Hooton doubts whether man's evolutionary status has improved appreciably since the end of the Glacial Ages, believes it will get worse unless "the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors" is stopped...
...Bradford Washburn, Jr., '29, will give a public lecture on "Exploring Yukon's Glacial Stronghold" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated with motion pictures and slides taken on his expedition last summer...