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...calm. A full moon flooded the snow-capped Austrian spy peak. Thirty minutes before midnight Prince Caetani pulled the detonators. From where he stood the noise was slight. Skyward hurtled the white top of the mountain and what came down was black. With the greatest of ease Italian troops then occupied the smoking crater in which they found not even dead Austrians...
...Manhattan, Arnaud Cartwright Marts of Marts & Lundy, financial counsel lors to philanthropic institutions, detected an upturn in church giving. From a peak of $850,000,000 in 1929, contributions fell to $510,000,000 in 1932, to $410,000,000 in 1933. This year Counsellor Marts believes the South and West will show a 10% to 15% increase in giving. In the North and East the decline will halt. But mission boards and welfare agencies will experience the upturn more slowly than churches proper...
...Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...season's peak, more than 1,000,000 spectators watch U. S. football games every Saturday. Last week's 15 most interesting games drew 450,000. In New York City four football crowds added up to 115,000. Biggest single bowlful of spectators (65,000) was at Pittsburgh...
Shrewd Yankee management has kept Scovill, with 300,000 items in its inventory, from missing a dividend in any year since 1855. It never duplicated its Wartime peak of $13,000,000 in profits when its enormous Waterbury plant was completely converted to munitions making but with ultra-conservative accounting it made $4,000,000 in 1929, about $1,000,000 last year...