Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister King rose to reply: "No words of mine can tell General Eisenhower what Canadians feel for him in their hearts." Canada, he said, had no Culzean Castle such as Scotland had offered the General last November, but it did have something more enduring-9,390-ft. Castle Mountain, in the Rockies...
...London party last year, Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...
...Down the Mountain. Few skiers are aware that the sober, dignified head of the nation's sixth biggest bank is the owner of North Conway's sport facilities as well as its No. 1 caper-cutter. In seven years his capers have changed North Conway from a quiet little summer resort (which went into hibernation every October) into the nation's busiest ski center...
Divorced. James Ramsey Ullman, 38, mountain-climbing, best-selling novelist (The White Tower), onetime Broadway producer: by Ruth Fishman Ullman, after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Many baseball bigwigs feel about their Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler the way some Democrats feel about President Truman. They wish the other guy were still here. They had reservations about Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as czar. They hoped when they unanimously compromised last spring on Happy as the Judge's successor that they could have him as the czar who reigns but does not rule. Last week they decided to let him wear the Landis shoes...