Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Leigh, priest; Tyburn...
...Berengaria (Cunard)-Épinard, famed French racehorse; with his stablemate (Satin Slippers), his dog friend (Peter), his owner (Pierre Wertheimer), his trainer (Eugene Leigh) ; Arthur Hammerstein, theatrical producer, with his wife, Dorothy Dalton, cinema actress...
Only a fragmentary dispatch to Sir Francis Younghusband, President of the Royal Geographical Society, was received. It recorded that George Leigh Mallory, one of the greatest and most experienced of all Alpine and Himalayan mountain-climbers, and A. C. Irvine, young Oxford graduate and one of the novices of the expedition, had perished on the last attempt. How or where was not known, except that they came a few hundred feet nearer the summit than the record of the 1922 expedition (27,250 feet).* There was no official communique from Colonel Norton, but his last one, written...
Died. George Leigh Mallory, 31, member of the Mt. Everest expedition (see Page...
WINE OF FURY?Leigh Rogers? Knopf ($2.50). Against the black and bloody canvas of the Russian Revolution, this story rises sombre and of more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor...