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...Everest Expedition of 1924 returned to humanity and civilization. Gen. Bruce, head of the expedition, who was forced to retire because of an attack of malaria (TIME, June 16) rode out of Darjelling and met the returning party several miles in the country. When the party reached the town, Lady Lytton and her guests gave it a handsome welcome. Gen. Bruce and Lieut. Col. Norton settled down to wind up the affairs of the expedition before returning to Calcutta...
...Aquitania (Cunard)?Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, famed creator of Ol' Bill and Little...
...unconfirmed radio dispatch received by a British archeologist in Paris, and cabled to America by a Hearst correspondent: "Nepal crowd hear Everest peak reached May 16. Bruce cannot confirm." The principality of Nepal in the Himalayas adjoins Mt. Everest on the east. General Bruce, the original commander of the expedition, has been at Darjeeling convalescing from the attack of malaria which compelled him to abandon the trek...
...exhibit is a book issued by the Harvard Press which received the medal awarded to the best volume printed under ordinary trade conditions, and not in a limited edition. The book is "Dr. Johnson: a study in Eighteenth Century Humanism", by Percy M. Houston; it was designed by Bruce Rogers. The Harvard Press also published four other books of the fifty selected, all of which were designed by Mr. Rogers. They are: "Modern Color," by Cutter and Pepper; "Prophets of yesterday," by John Kelman; "Wordsworth in a New Light," by Emile Legouis; and "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", by Clement...
Then comer the story of the ascent of the East glacier, culminating in the reaching of the Northeastern ridge, and the failure of the expedition due to storms, and the giving out of the oxygen tanks. The end is the assertion of Bruce--the leader of the party "you wait till 1924!" It will be interesting to hear of this second expedition, and to know whether the king of mountains shall be conquered. Meanwhile the story of the first attempt is full of strangeness and adventure