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...private life, homely Henry Louis Mencken was never an ogreish misanthrope. It did not take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once...
This French expedition, backed by Motorman Andre Citroen, led by Explorer Georges-Marie Haardt, was headed for Peiping, China, 8,000 miles away. Before it lay deserts, wastelands, mountains no motor car, few men, had ever climbed. That was why, instead of rear wheels, the cars had tractor bands, why a heavy tanklike arrangement with auxiliary bands was mounted between the front wheels. On the expedition were a dozen men, including one American, the National Geographic Society's Dr. Maynard Owen Williams. For their use & comfort the cars carried stationery, typewriters, archives, maps, books, artists' materials, guns, ammunition...
...progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow ledges, over slippery boulders. The snow was waist-deep, the cold bitter. On one trail a ledge gave way, the leading car hung suspended...
Last week, tired and jaded, Explorer Haardt and his 27 men had done with mountains, deserts and bandits for a while. Last obstacle had been the theft by Mongolian bandits of tractor bands for the cars. On worn bands the cars carried the party to clean clothes, bath tubs, decorations* and a good long rest. But for intrepid Explorer Petropavlosky, Peiping meant a bride. He had met Miss Barbara Rose Schurman while her father, Cornell's Jacob Gould Schurman, was Minister to China, but to marry her he had waited until the completion of the expedition, for which...
...Leader Haardt the ribbon of a com-mander of the Lesion d'Honneur; to Explorer Williams a chevalier's ribbon...