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Nothing is less susceptible to scrutiny than reputation. Put to the test, the savoir faire, savoir dire of the hardiest drollo in our midst would be hard put to it to approach this standard of imperfection. We can't attempt to be Casanovas without certain detection. And once let the folk of the watering-places get wind of our being neither more nor less than pretty average fellows whose urges are no more picaresque than the norm, we sink in the eyes of the world...
...that are obscure but presumably quite valid, the elaborate forced ventilating system installed in Widener cannot be put to use. Accordingly at present the method employed in the main Reading Room is to open a window wide (for a few minutes at long intervals), thus driving all but the hardiest readers to distant corners, while making no appreciable impression on the temperature of the rest of the room. That the latter is excessive can hardly be denied; ask any student who has experienced the lethargic effects of an hour's reading and has had to endure the ever-present smell...
...indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they attacked windy Heiberg Glacier...
...scenic grandeur the perpetually snowcapped peaks of Ecuador easily eclipse the Swiss Alps-but only hardiest humans have ever glimpsed Ecuador's grandest vastitudes. Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times. Politically the Republic of Ecuador has been unfortunate. President after President has seized office by violence. Eleven Constitutions have been adopted. Today President Isidro Ayora knows that he is at the beck of an aristocratic and military dictatorship, headed by the potent General Gobez...
These statistics, presented last week by President Bayard Foster-Pope of Stone & Webster & Blodgett, amazed the hardiest of investment observers...