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Mountain climbers were downcast last week. From Calcutta came a wireless saying that Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, commander of the 1924 attempt and failure to reach the highest spot on earth, Mt. Everest's peak,? had learned that the Tibetan authorities** had "definitely decided to prohibit any further expeditions...
...fuel and food-and soared northward again. This time their radio was silent for hours that stretched into two days. The men in Fairbanks hoped it was only a wrist Wilkins had sprained during the second round-trip that was preventing him from operating the monoplane Alaskan's wireless outfit...
...Fairbanks was no hop at all next day. Concerned for "Sandy" Smith and his dogs, Wilkins did not rest long when he got there, but loaded the Alaskan with dogmeat and gasoline and prepared to fly back over the towering Brooks range (6,000 feet and more). A wireless from the Colville River announced Smith's return to camp with reindeer meat. Wilkins shipped the relief food, piled on more gasoline and flew at once with Eielson ? carrying 3,800 lb. of fuel to start supplying the Barrow base for their major polar flights. The same afternoon he flashed...
From Manhattan, the Times sent radiograms poking around Europe in search of Correspondent Eyre, who could not be found. The wireless editor pulled out the original despatch. With the usual economy of words it read: "Pussyfoot arrived Germany intending make it second Sahara," which seemed ample justification for the rewrite man to have written: "William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, well known Dry crusader...
Then, at last, the radio found Correspondent Eyre, who indignantly replied that his original wireless read "Pussyfoots" not "Pussyfoot," that he did not have reference to the one-eyed, but to the general species of professional prohibitionists...