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...Eiger, a 13,042-ft. peak in the Jungfrau range, was first scaled in 1858, has been climbed many times since. But until three years ago, the Eiger had never been tackled via its north wall-a terrifying, ice-coated precipice over a mile high. Then two glory-greedy Germans decided to attempt it. They never returned. Nor did seven others who tried...
...team is composed of Lawyer Shackleford Miller Jr.; Michael ("Mickey" j Brennan, 61, red-headed one-time saloonkeeper; and "Miz" Lennie Lee McLaughlin, 34, who looks like the Duchess of Windsor and lives in style at the Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive committee. Mickey Brennan handles the people. Lawyer Miller watches the law. They were careful to get all the Barkley men they could...
Cliff Knoble was doing all right until January of 1937. A serious young man, he had worked his way up from male stenography via International Correspondence Schools to head a firm of his own. His Business Promotion Corp. had 14 employes, some fairly profitable accounts with Chrysler and other automobile dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
...dressing room, Challenger Max Schmeling announced that he had been fouled by a punch to the kidneys. He was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital, via a circuitous route to avoid the hysterical celebrations in Harlem. Meanwhile, millions of Germans, gathered around their radios all over the Reich at three o'clock in the morning, wept into their beer. "Impossible," they wailed when the broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed...
...associated companies had bumbled along the farthest flung set of air routes in the world without evoking any more serious criticism than a collection of pointed smoking-room jests. There was a fanciful yarn about India's long-delayed independence; the guess was that it might be coming via Imperial. Spicier was a tall tale about a woman who gave birth during a flight to India. Politely taxed by a flight clerk for boarding the plane in her condition, she became highly indignant. "I'll have you know," she replied hotly, "that when I got on this ship...