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...first ascent by a zoologist to the summit of Mount La Hotte, the least known and most difficult mountain peak in Haiti, has been accomplished by Philip J. Darlington, Assistant Curator of Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, it was announced yesterday...
...feature speakers of the evening were Charles S. Houston '35, who showed moving pictures of his ascent of Mt. Foraker, a 17,300 foot peak in the Alaska range, and Henry S. Hall '19, who explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...
Sorry though their plight may be, the brokers can point with pride to one notable fact: They came under Federal regulation and lived to tell the tale. There are today 616 Stock Exchange firms, only five less than on Jan. 1, only 49 less than at the 1930 peak. There are still 1,375 members of the Exchange, and they still like to bet on football games...
...these columns to attempt anything so hollowly pretentious as a "criticism" of Graumont's superb film, "Power." Suffice it to say that this picture comes mighty close to marking the very peak of cinema achievement. Lion Feuchtwanger's magnificent novel "Macht" has been worked into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed...
...street, Banker Reynolds has never been formally interviewed. He may have won his millions in the citadel of conservative Republicanism but he has never lost his standing as a good Democrat. To the nation's bankers Jackson Eli Reynolds is an awesome figure astride the highest peak in the mountain range of Morgan banks...