Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero of Hollywood's most durable saga investigating a murder case in Luxor where an archeologist has been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes more worthy of notice than conspicuous mountain." Aided by a dusky retainer and the fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable police chief (Paul Porcasi), a solemn professor...
...Hindenburg. Through the chink thus opened Herr Hitler eventually forced his way to power as Chancellor, finally succeeding Hindenburg - and remaining to this day grateful to von Ribbentrop who presently became a General. Last week the two men were closeted in the Realmleader's mountain snuggery amid the pungent pines of Bavaria. A zipping German airliner had just brought von Ribbentrop from London...
...Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, one-time Sing Sing convict: permission to play professional baseball except in exhibition games; from Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis (TIME, June...
...degrees are Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography, who is known as a pioneer in that field and who is retiring from the Faculty this year; William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College; George Sarton, authority on the history of science; Thomas Mann, author of "Magic Mountain" and "Joseph and His Brothers"; John Campbell Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution...
...decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Said Alabama Pitts: "You know it's funny, all this fuss being made about me, when they don't really know whether I can play ball...