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...Everything Is O.K." Wood picked up their equipment, dug a flat ledge and pitched the tent. With Viereck's help, he dragged Argus to shelter and then tramped out a signal in the snow: HELP BROKEN...
They fell 1,000 feet, bouncing over the ice toward a sheer granite precipice. Fifty yards from the edge, Les Viereck fell into a crevasse and yanked the others to a stop. Wood was the only one able to stand up. Viereck was shaken and stunned. Argus was badly injured and Thayer was dead...
...Delta. Pfc. Argus climbed a lot, but nothing really big until he tried McKinley with three friends, all former fellow students: Elton Thayer, the leader, a McKinley Park ranger and experienced mountaineer; Morton Wood; pilot and homesteader, who had assaulted the peak before, but failed; Pfc. Leslie Viereck of Ladd Air Force Base...
Thornton Wilder, who gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 1950-51, is a member of the committee that issued the statement. Peter R. Viereck '37, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was among the writers who drafted...
...associate professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, Viereck received is Masters and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard and was elected to PBK. Viereck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his book of poems, "Terror and Decorum." His latest book--just published--is "Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals...