Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind-scoured top of Mt. Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary planted a crucifix, he told a reporter last week.* The small fiber cross had been given to the expedition's leader, Sir John Hunt, by "an English Roman Catholic father," he said, though "actually none of the Everest team was a Catholic ... It was in a small envelope about half the usual size. When we reached the summit, I remembered the crucifix and stuffed the whole thing, envelope and all, in the snow alongside Tenzing's [Buddhist] offering...
...play the market. While much of his teaching is sound, he often makes investing appear so easy that those who swallow all his advice could easily lose their shirts. He has only scorn for those who advise buying "safe, sound," dividend-paying blue chips, urges them instead to hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital to grow." Those who measure value by dividends he likens to a man who believed "that a dog could be judged by the size of its tail . . . Many...
...rich combination of high romance and low melodrama, the picture has a fine archaic atmosphere. Examples: the brilliantly Technicolored pageantry of a court dance, a royal game of shuttlecock, Henry VIII riding to the hunt, a contest between French and English wrestling champions at Windsor Castle...
Bewildered Innocence. The prize catch of the high Sierra hunt, a bloated, pink-haired man whose oversized pants were held up by a money belt stuffed with $50 bills, was a study of bewildered innocence. He produced drivers' licenses identifying himself as one John Francis Brennan. But the FBI men tagged him on the spot with a fingerprint test as Robert Thompson, one of the eleven top Communist leaders who were convicted in 1949 of violation of the Smith Act. Two years ago, ordered to report to begin his three-year penitentiary term, he jumped bail, disappeared into...
...Aristocrats from around the globe visited the studio of one Hori Chyo, in Yokohama, to obtain such delicate decorations as a fool-the-eye fly tattooed on the hand. London's Sutherland Macdonald was the first European practitioner of any pretensions; among other designs, he offered a hunt with horses and red-coated riders pursuing...