Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warmer weather in the last tow days has melted away the prospects for good skiing in New England this weekend. Only North Conway, New Hampshire, Charlemont, Massachusetts, and Mohawk Mountain, Connecticut, report fair or fair to good conditions...
Jackson--Black Mountain: Three to ten inches with three surface powder. No skiing on upper trails, poor lower...
News of the December defeat in Korea swept like a winter blizzard through Tibet's remote mountain passes, where another Red Chinese army is invading. Communist prestige soared. Tibet's boy ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, last fortnight left his capital, Lhasa, on what the Indian government representative in Tibet described as "an official tour." Indian newspapers reported that the Lama was planning to set up a new seat of government at Yatung, a town in the Chumbi valley just across the Himalayan divide separating Tibet from the Indian-protected state of Sikkim...
Broadway to the Alps. The search for the River is not the first trip on the Amazon for Author Ullman, a rangy, weatherbeaten New Yorker who has put in his share of time among high mountains and in far-off jungles. A onetime Broadway producer (Pulitzer Prize-winning Men in White), he left Manhattan in 1936, after a series of flops, and headed straight for South America. Afterwards he wrote a fresh, lively account of his adventures in The Other Side of the Mountain...
Later he turned to mountain-climbing, wrote a book on mountaineering that ranks with the best on the subject. And his first novel, The White Tower, was good enough as straight adventure in the Swiss Alps to become a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in 1945, later a Technicolor thriller. Before setting out to write River, Author Ullman took a refresher trip to South America to make sure of his earlier impressions...