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Oldtimers deprecated such a drastic diagnosis. In his penthouse suite atop the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp building, Chief Manager Sir Arthur Morse a dynamic, silvery-haired Irishman, said imperiously: "We've been sitting on top )f a volcano out here for more than 100 years already. And we damned well propose to keep right on sitting-until it really blows up. Look about you, look about you; do you see any signs of jitters...
Mount Lamington is a 5,534-ft. volcano in the Owen-Stanley range, New Guinea. White residents call it the "Marx Brothers," because it has four cones; natives know it as "Spirit Mountain," from a legend that it once breathed fire...
...stream of lava boiled through the fishing village of Pahoehoe to the sea cliff, dropped 100 ft., steaming and hissing into the water. At week's end the lava still flowed. It would probably be the biggest outpouring from, the world's biggest volcano in the past 70 years...
...through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described him as "Dodsworth, with an overlay of violence." Ross is still personally noisy and professionally restrained, still charmingly churlish and intelligently ignorant, but his reputation for irascibility exceeds his performance...
Overcome by black fumes at the rim of the volcano, she spends the night on a lava bed and awakens (without a smudge on her face) to a morning scene of serene grandeur. Then, with no dramatic preparation but her awed look and a line of dialogue ("What mystery! What beauty!"), an offscreen narrator baldly announces that she has found the religious strength to return to her husband...