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From New York Jack Durrance* and Merrill McLane, ace Dartmouth College mountain climbers, started for Wyoming by airplane. Durrance said that he had scaled the Tower in 1936, thought he could do it again. With Paul Petzoldt, a veteran of Himalayan climbs, and five other men, Durrance and McLane inched their way up the Tower's sides, driving iron spikes ("pitons") into its hard, sheer sides to make a ladder. They reached the summit, roped little George Hopkins into the middle of their column, and carefully edged their way back down again. Safe on the ground, Hopkins drew...
...coldest places in the world. For all its long history, it is also one of the most benighted. Tibet is one of the world's last theocracies: its culture centres about its religion, Lamaism, a form of Buddhism which was brought up from India through the Himalayan passes in the 7th Century. This hierarchical faith, with its priests, abbots, lamas (monks), hutukhtus ("Living Buddhas"), is headed by two infallible incarnations-the Panchen Lama, a spiritual teacher or "Buddha of Boundless Light," and the Dalai Lama, a temporal sovereign, the "Buddha of Mercy...
Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...
...other great zone of quake frequency is known as the Mediterranean-Caucasian-Himalayan circle. Along this and the Pacific zone scientists estimate 91 out of 100 quakes occur...
...entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...