Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pursuant to instructions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's, general conference at Dallas last spring (TIME, May 26, et seq.), Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C. sailed into Rio de Janeiro's mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman...
...they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city of over 500,000 souls clean of loot, collected a ransom of 700,000 Shanghai dollars ($264,000), moved on to attack Hankow, "Chicago of China" and Kuling, mountain resort...
...party of Great St. Bernard monks traveled slowly last week toward the Swiss-Italian mountain border. Their large, patient dogs trotted ahead. In their comfortable hospice at St. Bernard pass, they had heard of a woman lost in a snowstorm on Barraston Peak, 9,725 ft. high. That she was an anti-Fascist refugee they may not have known, would not have cared. Important to them, dedicated to saving human life, was the fact that she was alone, a stranger to the bewildering ways of the great white Alps. At once they had packed themselves with supplies...
...Ross, civilian pigeon expert for the U. S. Army Signal Corps stationed at Fort Monmouth, N. J. was a worried man. His favorite bird, Molly Pitcher, was missing. He had sent her to the pigeon flying at Chattanooga, Tenn., Kentucky Derby of U. S. pigeondom. Loosed there from Lookout Mountain, she had failed to fly home. Ross was sure she knew the way (600 mi.), and of the 500 war couriers under his care, she is one of the fastest. Last year in the Grand National race at Danville, Va., she was second...
Moussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain by Philippe Gaubert and the ?Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, 2 records, $2 ea.)?In three parts, this glittering, skirling fantasia fully reveals the mind which created Macbeth-like Boris Godounov. Bizet's Adagietto from L'Arlésienne Suite, on the back of the second disc, recorded by Willem Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...