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Show NO MORE WORLDS LEFT TO RE CONQUERED Commander Richard Byrd performed per-formed a grand and gallant stunt. But he dealt a deatli blow to romance. ro-mance. Since the days of Queen Elizabeth exploration has been the world's great adventure. Young swashbucklers went out hunting for thrills and found new-worlds. new-worlds. There isn't any thrill in finding new lands any more. There aren't any more lands to find; and if there were, the finding would be tame and colorless compared with finding the North Pole. And when you can sail over the place in fifteen hours, there isn't any thrill left to the North Pole. It becomes a joy ride. The one last place is the top of Mt. Everest. Many men have died trying to reach it; and now the Tibetan authorities au-thorities have forbidden anyone else to try. It is well. The tragedy in scaling scal-ing Mt. Everest is not in failing, but in the fear that some one will succeed. suc-ceed. Then nothing will be left to do except work cross-word puzzles. |