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...primary object of the climb, which was led by Hassler Whitney, assistant professor of Mathematics, was to train new men in rope and rock technique. C. Stacy French, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biochemistry in the Medical School, accompanied the group. Among those who made the trip besides Whitney and French, were: Bishop, Cobb, Geist, Hinton, Marvin, Meigs, Notman, Overton, Sachs, and Smith...
...offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet to a rock ledge, landed physically unhurt, but with his mind wandering...
...those taking part in these demonstrations some measure of light to offset their materialist idealism." The editors confessed they had only 92? in the bank, issued one of their periodic appeals for funds. Subscribing themselves "Lovingly and confidently yours in Christ the Worker," they wrote: "We have reached rock bottom, we have piled up bills these many weeks. So we beg your help. Please send us what you can and may the Holy Family love you as you love...
Divorced. Conrad Potter Aiken, 48, famed poet (Time in the Rock; Preludes for Memnon), by his second wife, Clarice Lorenz Aiken, 30; in Boston. Grounds: infidelity...
Once he worked for the Pennsylvania. Then he was president of Baltimore & Ohio, and after that of Rock Island. In 1907 Harriman picked him for Delaware & Hudson, which ran 870 miles "from nowhere to nowhere" (meaning from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to Montreal). He already was head of a "right of way and two streaks of rust"-Kansas City Southern, from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas. Before long they were both making good money. Then nothing more happened till Harriman died and the Interstate Commerce Commission began talking consolidation...