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...Glacier is the happy hunting ground for mountain climbers. (But at Mt. Rainier Park, Wash., you can climb over more ice, reach the third highest peak in the U. S.) In fact, so Alpine is Glacier's atmosphere that guest houses are called chalets. There are tepees of placid Blackfeet by mirrored lakes, lots of snow on the peaks, and the Government botanist keeps the hotels full of Indian paintbrush, tufted bear grass, harebell, Nancy-over-the-ground. He wants you to steal them. It will keep you from rooting up wildflowers in the park, which the Government assiduously...
...Ryder Cup team. In the U. S. their names were more familiar. One was blond Craig Wood, professional at the Hollywood Golf Club of Deal, N. J., a phlegmatic, long-driving golfer who took up the game after he had been a crack speedskater at Lake Placid, N. Y. Last year Wood earned more prize money than any other U. S. pro-$7,000. Second place for money winnings went to the young professional who was his opponent in last week's play-off-Hermon Densmore Shute, of the Llanerch Country Club, near Philadelphia. In three days of marvelously...
...sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing the placid melancholy of his round face. With deliberation he closed his right eye although continuing to hold the telescope in front of him. The eye should be blind, he thought. Never mind. It's a good half-Nelson. "Gentlemen! A half-Nelson...
...Every morning the partners, including any visiting from Philadelphia, hold a meeting to discuss and plan their work. None of them is assigned permanently to any special department of work -each takes on whatever job offers, preferably one with which he is already familiar. Ordinarily the partners live fairly placid lives...
...placid were their lives last week however. In Washington the partners with their staff, lawyers, trunks full of records, occupied three floors of the Carlton Hotel. Their private detectives patrolled the corridors. The hotel elevators were forbidden to stop at the Morgan floors except for passengers with credentials...