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...AFTER VICTORY, STRAP YOUR HELMET TIGHTER...
...undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind, fight their way upward through the rare air a few feet at a time over the ice steps cut for them...
...store. Enclosed in the cornerstone were: a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth; a roll of ticker-tape; a horseshoe; a pair of eyeglasses; some sheet music; a telephotograph of Charles A. Lindbergh and wife; a wedding ring; several hundred flower seeds; a copy of the Congressional Record; a subway strap; some newspapers; a forecast of the future by Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld...
...turn at the Flin Flon Mine, 100 miles out. St. Godard's huskies weakened on the home stretch. A dog which had been lurching in the traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through the gigantic white domes of snow, alive in the wind over the wilderness, a figure was catching St. Godard-parka suit, woolen socks and moccasins, a young, bronzed face-Earl Brydges. Brydges lives in Cranberry Portage, St. Godard in The Pas, 55 miles away...
Frankfort, Ky., where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would lay for me till their dying day. I'm a hillbilly myself, so I know...