Word: glacier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dangerous Mission (RKO Radio) is a misguided tour of Glacier National Park in which the public inspects such unnatural phenomena as a studio glacier, a special-effects forest fire, an avalanche in miniature and Victor Mature. Actor Mature is a policeman from New York who has gone west to put the arm on a murder-case witness (Piper Laurie). One look at Piper and he offers both arms...
Forbidden (Universal-International) is not to be confused with Dangerous Mission just because it has almost exactly the same plot. This one is set not in Glacier Park but in "the seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only...
After Britain's New Statesman and Nation waggishly caricatured her in drawing and word ("Queen Edith [whose] mask is elaborate . . . eye-sockets . . . thumbed by a master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from...
...eastward end of the Cwm is sealed by the South Col, a 25,850 ft. ridge that joins Everest to Lhotse. Westward, the Cwm falls away in a giant ice fall that leaps precipitously down 4,000 ft. Beyond, at the foot of Nuptse, is the Khumbu glacier, the only known entrance...
Tenzing, who at the age of ten was herding Tibetan yaks above 20,000 ft., was riled at his leader's remark. Egged on by Nepalese hotheads (including Communists), he was induced to sign a statement, which he could not read, saying: "I practically directed operations from Khumbu Glacier...