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...affecting greeting given me on may arrival was not a bad cordial people reflecting in may ways the character of their surroundings. I suppose our learned psychologists think more of glands than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...Coronation bustled out to Windsor to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics, to cheer wildly as King George, Queen Elizabeth and most of the Royal Family wound out of the main gate of the Castle en route to a grassy slope nearby on the river Thames...
...Winter may find himself outwitted, even if he holds back all snow, for the entries are coming in so well that the U.S.E.A.S.A. announces that it is making tentative plans to hold the meet anyhow, using shaved ice for the slope of the runway and the hillside. Park Carpenter, second vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with...
...able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried down the precipitous slope. Next morning Martin Johnson died. At week's end two other passengers had also died...
...Western Massachusetts open slope skiing is reported at Greenfield. The trails on Greylock are insufficiently covered to allow any running but some of the open slopes on the north side of the mountain have two inches of powder snow over a thin frozen base...