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...four hiked about 40 miles up the ice slopes of Ruth Glacier. At 5,500 ft. up the Great Ruth Basin, supplies were air-dropped by Pilot Wood's wife Ginny, flying a light plane with a girl friend beside her. The four men packed 30 days' supplies on their backs, but, to save ten pounds in weight, no radio. At 10,000 ft. they ran into an ice wall, but cut hand and foot holds to climb...
...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...
Dangerous Mission (RKO Radio) is a misguided tour of Glacier National Park in which the public inspects such unnatural phenomena as a studio glacier, a special-effects forest fire, an avalanche in miniature and Victor Mature. Actor Mature is a policeman from New York who has gone west to put the arm on a murder-case witness (Piper Laurie). One look at Piper and he offers both arms...
Forbidden (Universal-International) is not to be confused with Dangerous Mission just because it has almost exactly the same plot. This one is set not in Glacier Park but in "the seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only...
After Britain's New Statesman and Nation waggishly caricatured her in drawing and word ("Queen Edith [whose] mask is elaborate . . . eye-sockets . . . thumbed by a master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from...