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About 9 p. m. the CH-113 settled upon the glacier above the village of Ober Gurgl in the Austrian Tyrol. There the scientists rested until morning beside their deflated balloon, calmly working on their notes, securing precious instruments. A searching party met them toward midday, led them to safety and the world's news spotlight...
...Francis is as attractive as usual, which is high praise. Clive Brook continues to have the most expressive eyebrows in Hollywood and is as much the suave glacier as ever...
Press despatches from Cordova, Alaska, last week contained news which puzzled many a U. S. zoologist and paleontologist. Three weeks ago, it seemed, some one had found a wonderful prehistoric lizard in an ice cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent...
...whole Northwest claims Brobdingnagian Lumberjack Paul Bunyan, mightiest of loggers, and his blue ox Babe. Together they dug Puget Sound in less than three weeks, using a glacier as a scoop. Paul Bunyan invented the double-bladed ax so that he could fell a tree on every backswing. His grindstone, which he made himself, "was so large that every time it made a single revolution it was pay day." His achievements and appetites were in proportion...
...filled his room with cold clean air. As the special session of the Senate moved rapidly toward an end, the President turned his thoughts to a vacation. He announced that he expected to leave Washington about Aug. 15 to spend two weeks in the "Northern Rockies," probably Glacier National Park. All of the many invitations to speak on this outing have been declined by the President. He will go and come in as much seclusion as possible, lest he be involved in Republican primary squabbles on the general agricultural depression...