Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the first two chapters of this history were made public, arranged the way Sculptor Borglum's mountain-carving crew will reproduce them. It was seen that the historian, beginning with the Declaration of Independence, had managed to reach the end of the Constitutional Connvention with an expenditure of only 75 words, thus...
...read. His first story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal Cain, The Lay Anthony, Mountain Blood, Wild Oranges, Tampico, Swords and Roses, The Bright Shawl, Java Head, Balisand, From an Old House, The Dark Fleece, The Happy End, Cytherea, Linda Condon, San Cristobal de la Habana...
Married. George Newell Armsby, 53, financier (Bancamerica-Blair Corp., California Packing Corp.); and Colette Touzeau, 36, daughter of Henri Touzeau, onetime French master at Eton College, England; in Glendale, Calif. The honeymoon : in Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille's mountain cabin...
Credulous laymen gasped when Dexter Fellowes was quoted as having said: "I snapped up 67 of the choicest Alps in the country, scattered from the coast range to the White Mountains. ... I started in California and intended to sneak all the best peaks before the trade got wind of my intentions, but before I had cleaned up the coast range the news was out. In the Sierra Nevadas the prices jumped from $50 a peak to $1,000 and I had to play one mountain against another to get them for anything like a reasonable figure...
...been suspected of deciding debated points in favor of amateurs, the P G. A. has lacked funds, direction. Last week the P. G. A. chose a new head to be tsar of professional golf- Albert R. Gates of Chicago. His powers are comparable to those of Tsars Kenesaw Mountain Landis in baseball and Will H. Hays in the cinema. His functions: 1) to use the money of the organization to promote business for its 2,202 members, most of them golf instructors; 2) to cooperate with the U. S. G. A. in running tournaments; 3) to see that professionals...