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Henry Bradford Washburn Jr., methodical young mountain climber of Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America...
...Saurwein; Robin Scully; Douglas H. Sears; John K. Shinn, Jr.; William C. Sigerson; Richard F. Story; William N. Swift; Terry D. Thompson; Harold M. Thurston, Jr.; Donald P. Todd; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr.; William P. Tuttle, Jr.; David N. Ulrich; Victor C. Vaughan, 3d.; Walter I. Wardwell; John L. Washburn; Louis B. Wehle, Jr.; B. Sheffield West; Samuel W. White, Jr.; Arthur S. Williams; Richard L. Wing; and Morton G. Wurtele...
...COMMONER MARRIED A KING-Baroness cle Vaughan-Washburn ($2.50). Guarded but self-revealing confessions of "Très Belle," who at 16 became the mistress of 65-year-old Belgian King Leopold II, bore him two sons, married him four days before his death...
Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...
...fastest moving glaciers in the world, in New Zealand and Greenland, only move 30 feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually disappear. The Black Rapids Glacier is a case in point...