Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood has seldom seen such a climber. Only eight years ago, Jack Webb was an unknown news announcer in a San Francisco radio station. Only six years ago he was a "starving" motion picture bit-player. But even then, he was seeking compulsively for handholds, eyes fixed unblinkingly on the heights. No ledge was too narrow, no couloir too deep to halt him. The traveling companions who could not keep up he left behind. Some grabbed for his ankles or coattails. He shook them off. He bounded up to fame almost overnight as Sergeant Joe Friday, the quiet, dark-haired...
Longenecker was not an inexperienced climber. Further, it is reasonable to believe that Parysko ran by three emergency telephones because he knew that they connected only with the Appalachian Mountain Club camp at the base of the mountain, staffed during normal ski hours. He passed the telephones at night. We cannot say if he knew, or discovered, that the Teuckerman Ravine Shelter was unoccupied. Certainly he passed the two first aid caches simply because it was not aid for himself he sought, but help for his snow-buried companion...
While granting that the advice in their letter is fine, I feel that the H.M.C.'s concern is belatedly expressed, and does little to excuse their evasion of a vital responsibility to the climber and skier, not in print, but on the slope of mount Washington. R. Michel Zilberstein...
...rapture of the depths is much like the mountain climber's euphoria, the exuberant dizziness that blinds the climber to danger when the supply of blood oxygen gets thin. Divers fear narcosis. One came back from a record 306 ft. down, and lived to tell about it. Another, Maurice Fargues, plunged down to 396 ft., scribbled his name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going...
...open secret that California's Governor Earl Warren, 62, would like a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. But the present nine justices are spry, sturdy fellows (Bill Douglas, 54, is a mountain climber; Hugo Black. 67, still plays tennis), and they like their jobs. The best hope for Governor Warren-and for California's Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who would like to have Warren's job-is that the oldest member of the court, Felix Frankfurter, 70, might soon retire...