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...surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James' Peak, and this name is given to it on the map which accompanies the report of the expedition...
Look had never looked so healthy, or been so prosperous. In the second quarter of 1948 it had sold a record $2,867,000 worth of ads, half again as much as last year. For the 13th quarter in a row, circulation was also up. With 2,910,104 (up 361,000 in a year), the picture magazine had almost caught up to Collier's (see below), currently less than 14,000 ahead...
...Hour Day. In Look's Fifth Avenue GHQ, the two have offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while...
...ambassador to the Vatican, giving no official dinners, roaming through other people's parties lost in thought, and devoting most of his time to Rome's Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor." Last week Princeton University appointed Maritain professor of philosophy...
...Lowe, director of the Baptist (radio) Hour announced results of a favorite-hymn poll conducted in Southern Baptist territory. Winner of this Baptist Hit Parade was the Rev. George Bennard's lachrymose Old Rugged Cross. Runners-up: In the Garden, Amazing Grace. In last place (13th) stood Rock of Ages...