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...Simpson entered this world at Monterey Inn, perched about a mile from Blue Ridge Summit in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Last week the wealthy, horse-breeding obstetrician who attended her mother, Dr. Lewis Mines Allen, former Professor of Obstetrics at University Hospital, Baltimore, said: "I remember the incident only vaguely, but I do recall Wallis as a little girl. She had long hair and was pretty and exceptionally magnetic in her personality...
...Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below and find the cause of the death of a civilization...
...joint Harvard-U. S. Weather Bureau weather station at the summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., which since 1932 has supplied important observations used in forecasting for the Boston area, will be enabled to continue this winter as a result of recent financial support from the state of New Hampshire totaling about...
Beginning next summer the Mt. Washington observatory will have a new building on the summit. This structure, two stories high, has been designed by the engineering staff of the Boston and Maine railroad to withstand wind velocities of over 200 miles an hour, and will be anchored by bolts sunk four feet into the rock. Construction is already in progress, under the direction of Col. Henry N. Teague...
...addition, through pioneer investigations launched by the scientists who brave the climate of the mountain summit year-around, the station, is rapidly becoming one of the country's most important centers of meteorological research...