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...close to vertical. Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, took two days to hack an ice staircase diagonally up to the -col. Camp VI and Camp VII were established on the face; finally, Noyce and a Sherpa gang reached the col and stood in a clear sky on the threshold of Everest. Here they made Camp VIII...
...Girl, My Home Town Is a One-Horse Town -but Its Big Enough for Me, and the title tune. Unfortunately, there is also a screenplay. Too vaguely based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic maid (Mary Wickes), an unruly youngster (Billy Gray), a pet turkey named Gregory. With its sleighrides, ice-skating parties and other Technicolored bucolics, By the Light of the Silvery Moon...
...have it, says Dr. Weinstein; it should be reserved for those who feel that they need it because they cannot face up to the pain of even routine dental work, and for others who may have to be convinced that they should have it because of a low pain threshold, gagging or fainting...
...Westcott charged that the cause of chlorophyll has been harmed by over-zealous manufacturers peddling chlorophyll popcorn and chlorophyll-impregnated baby pants. But he stuck to his guns: "We are only on the threshold of a full understanding of chlorophyll and of the values it may hold when it is properly applied...
Southern Rhodesia is a settler's colony, poised on the threshold of industrialism. Population: 150,000 whites; 2,000,000 Bantus (mostly Matabeles and Mashonas). Last week the British government formally agreed to federate it with the copper-rich protectorate of Northern Rhodesia and neighboring Nyasaland...