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...country, Shepherd Maamar Bentouta was standing watch over his sheep. "Suddenly," he said, "I saw the earth opening up all around me and my sheep disappearing into enormous crevices." Almost caught in a crevice himself, the shepherd crawled home with a broken rib only to find his wife and children crushed in the ruins of their cottage...
...Hands. Last week CQ celebrated its tenth anniversary, it got its first publisher. The man who will fill the new position is 51-year-old Buel Fellows Weare, a Princeton Phi Beta Kappa (1925), onetime manager of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, later boss of the T rib's European edition, and, most recently, assistant to the publisher. Weare's job, as outlined by CQ's Owners and Co-Editors Nelson and Henrietta Poynter: to add quantity to CQ's quality circulation...
Death on the Ridge. Professor Desio and his men laid Camp 1 at the foot of the Abruzzi Ridge, a gaunt rib which lances upwards towards the summit of K2. On the fearful Abruzzi, perhaps the longest continuously steep climbing ridge in the world, a man is like a fly on a wall. He must edge himself up a vertical "chimney," 100 feet high; if he grabs too hard at the rock, it crumbles in his hand...
Desperate Scenery contains rib-tickling accounts of Paul pounding the piano for silent movies, playing shortstop against "The Boston Bloomer Girls," and tousling with an unfriendly Chinese ("I learned for the first time how strong and difficult a small Chinese can be, when apprehensive"). The book climbs to its ribald and humorous peak with a description of the night the brothel burned down in Ashton, Idaho, and "the quick thinkers routed out those who chanced to be relaxing in the bedrooms ..." Happily, sporting life a la Paul never gets quite so outrageous that it cannot be thoroughly enjoyed by hammock...
From high in the Himalayas, a runner brought eight-day-old word that Sir Ed mund Hillary, 34, who one year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...