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...centuries the stark silent height of the Matterhorn uttered no challenge. Like the Greek Gods of Olympus, like the Firegoddess Pele of Kilauea, a legendary monster of the Matterhorn threatened and forbade. In the middle of the last century Englishmen came, applied cold geological calculations to the possibility of ascent, exploded the monster forever. Since then the Matterhorn has often been scaled, though hundreds have perished in the attempts. Last week an American, Leon Goodrich of Manhattan, set a record by climbing from a low outstation to the peak and back...
There is also a gruesome legend, "The Monster of Glamis," which is repeated at Scotch firesides in two versions. Version A: 500 years ago an heir of Glamis and rightful thane was born a hideous monster. He never died but is still alive in the castle's secret room. Version B: most of the Earls of Strathmore have been second sons, the firstborn sons, rightful heirs, being monsters which had to be spirited away...
...girdled green there bask the plains Where, with his timeless smiles. And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains- The Oriental Giles. Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless...
...Primo Camera, Mediterranean monster, unfloored in the U. S.: permission from the U. S. immigration board to extend his U. S. stay until Dec. 31. "That is all I want," said he. "Time to become the pugilistic champion...
...months the Cunard Line has been explaining that the big obstacle to constructing a monster British speed rival to Germany's Bremen and Europa was the matter of insurance. Insurance companies in the U. S. and Britain, boat-shy since the mysterious $3,000,000 fire on the Europa (TIME, April 8, 1929), were either too poor or too nervous to write a $30,000,000 policy. Last week the British treasury and the Board of Trade came to the rescue. They agreed to underwrite that margin of insurance on the great Cunarder's construction which cannot...