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Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...
...Salouen, Tibetan village near the source of the great Yellow River. Salouen is 14,000 ft. high, cold, blustery as the Alpine heights. It is a Buddhist shrine. The St. Bernard group will build a hospice there, will try to convert, Buddhist pilgrims to Roman Catholicism, will succor the snowbound, be they converts or heathen...
...From Red River, Hot Springs, Idaho, Dr. P. J. Weber started with dog, sled and snow shoes to a blood-poisoned miner snowbound on a far mountain...
...First Law. In reality anything might happen if a bearded Bolshevik, a lovely Britisher and her fragile blue-blooded fiance were snowbound for several weeks in a one-room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen-after both men had been seized with an overwhelming urge for the maiden, one of them would prove a cad, the other would enjoy the cabin as a quasi-nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian, the British fiance...
...back by a raging blizzard. On the seventh try, Lieut. Dan Kearns and Sergeant Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their...