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...that we had to coax him off the Ibis where he had been dropping martinis on people and passing cars below. Not that there was anything wrong about dropping things from the Ibis, but these were the particularly good martinis that Bill Matterhorn had made while in England...
...Harvard ("I am very glad I am not a Yale freshman; the hazing there is pretty bad. The fellows too seem to be a much more scrubby set than ours"), to marry twice and beget six children ("Nothing else . . . can take the place of family life"), to climb the Matterhorn ("I was anxious to go up it because ... a man . . . can fairly claim to have taken his degree as, at any rate, a subordinate kind of mountaineer"), to become a rancher in North Dakota ("These westerners have now pretty well accepted me ... as a representative stockman...
...serving it instead of tea, and Italian aristocrats offer it to their guests instead of champagne. Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth in the shadow of the Matterhorn and beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx. The gentle burps which it evokes from the drinker are heard amid the bustle of Parisian sidewalk cafes and amid the tinkling of Siamese temple bells...
...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...
...Swiss Painter Paul Klee, as unfettered as a yodeler on the Matterhorn, gave his fellow artists some advice. If a literalist should look at one of their portraits, he told them, and say, "But that isn't a bit like uncle," the disciplined artist should reply, "To hell with uncle! I must get on with my building...