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Every morning last week a knot of sturdy Britons, surrounded by gawping Hindu hillmen, watched a snorting little Puss Moth skitter off the field at Purnea, near the Nepal border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...
Back to Purnea, the Moth brought consistently discouraging news to the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition. Flying conditions were bad. One day low hanging clouds obscured most of the surrounding terrain, an important drawback because the expedition's scientific aim was to map aerially 250 sq. mi. surrounding the peak. Another day a great white snow plume whirled menacingly about Everest's cone. The flyers were waiting for a wind velocity not to exceed 40 m.p.h. They fell impatiently to tinkering with their ships and equipment, already at taut perfection. They had been at Purnea nine days, but precious...
...leader, Air-Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes, who had led the party on its hazardous 25-day flight out from England and who won a bar to his D. S. O. in 1918 by bombing the Zeebrugge Lock gates from a nonchalant altitude of 200 ft., took the Puss Moth up once more at 5:30 a. m. for observation...
Wearing aeronautical leggings, a white evening dress or a costume which, she says, makes her look like a moth, sleek Katharine Hepburn gives a performance in Christopher Strong which frequently brings Frankau's drawing room tragedy sharply to life. The picture-in which the title rôle is secondary-can therefore be considered a success; its purpose was to provide a glamorous background for an actress whom experts consider Hollywood's most notable box-office find since Joan Crawford. In her first cinema (A Bill of Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone...
...Atlantic (TIME, Aug. 29). Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down...