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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss mountains 75 climbers had died (against 14 last year). Fifty had been killed in France, 28 of them on Mont Blanc and its neighboring ridges alone...
...best explanation of the calamitous 1949 season was simply that more people were climbing, and having more accidents. Another explanation: the long, hot summer had dried out slopes, increased the number of avalanches. One 18-year-old Briton who spent three days trapped on a mountain ledge-and lived to tell about it -was Timothy Smiley of Aberystwyth...
...Manhattan's Town Hall a few blocks from the Lombardos (see above), an older and more fabled musician was celebrating too. For 74-year-old Léon Rothier, whose bass had boomed through three decades at the Metropolitan Opera, it was just 50 years since his debut at Paris' Comedie Française...
...Royal Canadians' record was pretty hard to beat. Consistently, since 1931, radio editors had ranked them among the top dance bands on the air. For 20 years their gross had been near $1,000,000 a year. They had introduced more than 300 hits, such as Little White Lies, You're Driving Me Crazy, Boo-Hoo-and were still playing all of them the same old way. This year, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing thanked them with a Distinguished Service Scroll for consistently acting as a bulwark against "invasions by hordes of cynical jive extremists...
...greatest cooperative evangelistic movement of the past half-century got under way this week. For the next 15 months-until New Year's Eve of 1950 -38 Protestant denominations, with a membership of some 35 million, will be united in trying to persuade the unchurched (estimated at 70 million) to join one of their denominations, take part in their work and devotions. Title of this all-out effort (which is sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches): the United Evangelistic Advance...