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...schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie locks him up in the cabin while she goes to a reception for her son, meets his fiancee Pat (Maureen O'Sullivan), daughter of his boss...
...leave Yellowstone by Gardiner, Mont., a long day's drive up the Park-to-Park Highway will get you to Glacier, on the Canadian border. Glacier is the happy hunting ground for mountain climbers. (But at Mt. Rainier Park, Wash., you can climb over more ice, reach the third highest peak in the U. S.) In fact, so Alpine is Glacier's atmosphere that guest houses are called chalets. There are tepees of placid Blackfeet by mirrored lakes, lots of snow on the peaks, and the Government botanist keeps the hotels full of Indian paintbrush, tufted bear grass...
From June 15 to September 15 this year, 50,000 people will visit Glacier, 150,000 will see Yellowstone. More than twice that many will go to the nation's most popular park, Yosemite, where Director Cammerer was due this week. Main gateway to the Yosemite is Merced, in central California. Pert, goodlooking college boys drive the buses and co-eds perform cheerfully but inexpertly as waitresses. Whopping groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps...
...thin crust is elastic, yields to strains and stresses. Places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are 800 ft. higher than they were 30,000 years ago when the Wisconsin Glacier pressed down upon New England. When the glacier melted the land sprang back to normal elevation. Another 100,000 years must pass before a similar glacier could descend upon & depress the region-Irving Bollard Crosby (Boston), Richard J. Lougee (Columbia...
...says M. God, bowing deferentially. Arm in arm they march off the stage, not only stop the rebellion but put the servants to work digging them out of the glacier. Because he detests ostentation. M. God has refused to perform any miracles himself...