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...professor" was Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth, who teaches geology at Zurich, but now leads a mountain climbing party which will soon assault Kanchenjunga. Himalayan peak never scaled by man. The monastery (itself three weeks by trek from the nearest white men at Darjeeling, India) was their last stop ping point before establishing their camp on Kanchenjunga's base, some three miles above sea level...
...giving a few lectures at colleges and universities of the East, and when at 8 o'clock Monday he speaks on "The Cinema as an Art," members of the University will be afforded a rare opportunity to hear a man whose brilliant career has brought him to the peak...
Oberammergau lies in a valley of those Alps, a town of ornate chalets inhabited chiefly by woodcarvers who combine medieval craftsmanship with modern salesmanship, who ship their whittlings all over the world. Over the town looms the jagged Kofel peak; in the town a bearded newsboy, attired in plus fours, sells his papers from a motorcycle. It is a town of anachronisms but the Passion Play is still its overtone...
...social structure; and with the increasing insignificance of a mere diploma and the necessity for some kind of graduate work, the need of a solution becomes over more obvious. With the true courage born of despair, Mr. Lindsey has sought to attain in a single bound to a peak which it will doubtless require several generations of laborious effort to reach with any degree of security. Unfortunately, the gullet of the general public is of conservative dimensions, and has never yet been known to swallow reform in large and radical chunks. And for all Mr. Lindsey's cramming, it probably...
Pullman travel in 1929 took its worst slump in five years. Though the company operated more cars (8,842), more miles (1,206,767,059) than ever before the number of passengers (33,434,268) fell off 2,638,943 from the five-year peak. The average Pullman passenger traveled 420 miles on each trip last year, 25 miles further than he did in 1925. But where 13 people rode in each Pullman car in 1925, only 11 people rode in 1929. Result: many more empty upper berths...