Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Mr. Ford proposed to do about it he kept strictly to himself all last week. He was on vacation in his 16-room, copper-roofed "cabin" (cost: $100,000) at the Huron Mountain Club in the wilds of northern Michigan on Lake Superior. Son Edsel was taking his ease at Seal Harbor, Maine. One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel. He put the call through from a private room at the Northland Hotel. As he ambled out, newshawks swooped down...
...exciting but comparatively simple job to pluck three Boy Scouts off a narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...
Meanwhile the handsome, velvet-horned seven-point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
Like the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, Black Mountain will be governed by its faculty instead of a board of trustees. The students will have one representative. Present president and acting chairman of the faculty is Chemistry Professor Frederick Raymond Georgia. Treasurer is Theodore Dreier, nephew of Mrs. Raymond Robins (Rollins trustee, wife of the reformer who disappeared for a time with amnesia last year). Black Mountain College will emphasize Art, allow its students wide freedom in choosing courses, studying in seminars and graduating when they feel ready. Before graduating they must pass an examination in their special field...
...their number increased to nine (out of a faculty of 45) by dismissals and resignations after the college year ended. They looked for financial backing and a place to settle. They found both. The site is a religious conference centre complete with buildings, golf course and lake, at Black Mountain in North Carolina's Blue Ridge. Last week they got a charter, announced that Black Mountain College will open this month...