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...knowledge of his mountains. In the early '30s, he started after a lost lawyer by guessing that he would have headed for the highest minaret in the area. Coming upon a pile of rocks of the sort climbers erect as trail markers, Clyde found fresh grass underneath. Clyde reasoned that the missing lawyer had recently built the pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde. "But I couldn't find anything there, not even footprints. Then I heard a buzzing sound above...
...entire Ivy League, perhaps even in the nation. For example, unskilled laborers receive $1.35 per hour plus certain free meals here; at Columbia, the comparable hourly rate in $1.05. In addition, the Harvard pay scale is based upon a 40-hour week, while Yale, which pays the second-highest wages among these schools, goes on the basis of a 48-hour week...
...year ago to a record 5,050 today. During the first half of 1958. when the industry was down to 54% of capacity, Granite City ran at 86%. After rolling up the highest earnings as a percent of sales among the first 17 steelmakers in 1955, and the second-highest in 1956 and 1957, Granite City Steel's earnings dropped 38% in 1958's first half, partly because of the cost of its modernization program. But its earnings picture is once again favorable: third-quarter net per common share was $1.08, v. 75? a year ago, with sales...
Last year, McVey, second-highest team scorer and center on the second line, was named to the All-Ivy hockey squad and was the only native American on the second All-American team at Colorado...
...befits one of the most widely read authors in the U.S., Erskine Caldwell, 53, lives handsomely and high. Perched on a sheer-sloped San Francisco peak, his rented modernistic house is on the second-highest street in town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere...