Word: hackett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis Gannett asked: "Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation? Main Street doesn't read like a crusading book today. Maybe it never was as much'a crusading book as some of its readers assumed." Francis Hackett found Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been made "trite" by time and another war. Hackett's conclusion, which would call many Hemingway fans to arms: "[This] lyrical novel, for all its excellences, shows how sterile the primitive protest really...
From a village in Aconcagua's foothills last week came word that Hackett had climbed on despite his crippled hand, finally reached the top. After planting the Stars & Stripes, he headed back to the base camp. He was the first U.S. citizen to conquer the "Father of Mountains...
...mountain-minded man like William D. Hackett, Aconcagua, the 22,835-ft. peak which straddles the Argentine-Chilean border, was an irresistible challenge. Hackett had started climbing at twelve in the Olympic Range near Bremerton, Wash., had served with mountain infantry in World War II. In 1947, Lieut. Hackett joined a scientific expedition that scaled Alaska's Mt. McKinley. Last month 30-year-old Bill Hackett got a 45-day leave from his post at Fort Benning, Ga., and set his sights for Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest peak...
Almost from the start Hackett and his companion, Argentine Lieut. Jorge Julio Mottet, circled traps which had claimed the lives of at least 20 explorers since the peak was first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack...
Born. To Dorothy McGuire, 31, heart-faced cinemactress (Claudia, Gentleman's Agreement), and John Swope, 39, professional photographer and son of onetime General Electric President Gerard Swope: their first child, a daughter, in Ossining, N.Y. Name: Mary Hackett. Weight...