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Mount Shuksan in Washington's Cascades is a 9,030-ft. mass of snow fields, glaciers, crevasses, waterfalls, rock chimneys (vertical crevices). Mount Rainier is higher (14,408 ft.); Mount Baker is more difficult, less dangerous (although six climbers died on its slopes last year...
...Boyer and Miss Cedarquist got to within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more help than...
...Gibraltar was a national disgrace. Smooth-talking Sir Samuel Hoare went to Madrid and lost no time in indicating to Franco that Great Britain was willing to make a deal over Gibraltar. The terms of the deal were supposed to be that after the war Britain would give the Rock back to Spain, lease it until international disarmament could be effected; meanwhile Britain would finance Spanish reconstruction in return for continued neutrality. With a national debt of some $2,000,000,000 staring him in the face, El Caudillo was naturally interested...
FRUIT OUT OF ROCK-Frances Gillmor-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In this gently tragic idyl of the Arizona irrigation country Amanda loves her valley orchards, Stephen loves his mesa-browsing goats, Amanda and Stephen love each other. Drought sears the pasture lands, threatens to dehydrate the romance: valley grasses can save the starving goats or protect the orchards from floods. Stephen with his goats conquers the trees in Amanda's heart. But a flash flood drowns Stephen, leaves unwed Amanda to raise figs, peaches and Stephen's posthumous baby. Author Gillmor's tale has some...
Paunchy, 31-year-old Robert Ardrey is now in Hollywood. He is convinced that Thunder Rock would have been more successful in the U. S. if European conditions then had been as crucial as they are today. Sore at the Group Theatre, Ardrey feels that the American production of Thunder Rock was bungled. He is not worried about the fact that his royalties from London are frozen by war restrictions. He has made enough in Hollywood to keep him going for the next five years, intends to quit the cinema in October, have another try at Broadway...