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...ordinary mountain, no well-worn Mont Blanc. Annapurna, in the Nepalese Himalayas, soars 26,493 ft., and when Herzog and his pal, Louis Lachenal, reached the summit, they had scaled the highest peak ever topped by man. In Annapurna, Herzog's story of the expedition in the spring of 1950, the victory becomes a literary anticlimax. What is vastly more exciting than the climb is the return trip, the harrowing ordeal-by-nature calculated to shiver the spirit of the toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes...
Theft-Proof Wheat. The Roosevelt Stockman's Association put on sale confetti to foil wheat thieves. (For the last few years there have been several big wheat thefts a year in Roosevelt County, Mont.) Packaged with a code number printed on each piece of paper, the confetti is mixed with the farmer's wheat, and the code number recorded by elevator men when the wheat is traded. If the wheat is stolen, the code number makes it easy to identify when resold...
Wrote Exhibitor Frank E. Sabin, from Eureka, Mont. (pop. 929): "[A Place in the Sun is] definitely not classed as entertainment by my patrons. A sordid sort of thing all through. [Montgomery] Clift and [Shelley] Winters just moped around for the first 80 minutes-then he drowned her and the story whipped up. His march to the electric chair was the windup of the thing. Jolly, what...
...Johnson was watching her husband split logs, using a wedge and a sledge, at their St. Regis, Mont, farm when something struck her in the abdomen. Last week, when Mrs. Johnson's baby girl arrived (by Caesarean section), doctors found nothing wrong with the baby except a steel splinter, as big as a fingernail, stuck in her scalp. Now she is doing fine...
...Mont television network sought permission Monday to television the game in the New York area, along with this week's Yale-Princeton and Columbia-Navy games. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's TV committee, in rejecting the offer, said it was "amazed that the Du Mont network should endeavor to break down a program with which the network is thoroughly familiar...