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...feet. Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma, meaning "Goddess Mother of Mountains," but the British named it after Sir George Everest, the crack surveyor who charted much of India. Last week Red Peking, which recently gobbled up Tibet, decreed that Everest (which no one has ever climbed to the summit) will hereafter be known by its ancient name, Chomolungma...
...Club elected its officers for next year last night. They are: President, Edmund K. Summersby '54 of Summit, New Jersey, and Claverly Hall; secretary, Stephen S. Walker '54 of Concord, Mass., and Winthrop House; and treasurer, Daryl R. Hawkins '54 of Seattle, Washington, and Dunster House...
...blowing a gale. The wind shrieked over New Hampshire's Mount Washington, wrapping its 6,288-ft. summit in swirling fog. Thick ice glazed the mountain's sheer headwall. From Pinkham Notch, down in the valley, a line of black dots inched upward along two rows of red flags. The dots were ski fans, out to see the world's most dangerous ski race, "the American Inferno." The course runs in a four-mile drop from the summit over the 1,000-ft. headwall, through Tuckerman's Ravine and down a narrow wooded trail to Pinkham...
...Dick Durrance did it in twelve minutes; a year later, Austria's Toni Matt went down wide open in the seemingly unbelievable time of 6 min. 29 sec. This year, 13 topnotch skiers made up their minds to try it despite the foul weather-not from the summit, but from a point three-quarters of the way up the mountain...
...Thomas Hardy was at the summit of his novelist's career. Such dark-grained, tragic stories as The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles had won him a place second only to George Meredith among the late Victorians. They had also won him a handsome income; Hardy, the son of a poor stonemason, earned enough to build a comfortable home in his native Dorset, where he suffered the tongue of his shrewish wife, walked the countryside, and gloomed over the fate of man in an inhospitable universe...