Spirit of the Snows

Your twice as sure with two great names. Frigid Air and General Motors. Frigid Air presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever there is mystery, gentry, romance, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the man called X.

And all Frigid Air presents Herbert Marshall as Kent Thurston, a man called X. Three months ago, in a wind-battered tent clinging precariously to the snow-clad slopes of Mount Lamba Parbat and Bhutan, our letter was written, tonight in a hotel room in Chunking, China, a telephone rings. The connection between them?

Well listen. Good, put him on. Yes sir. Hello Chief. Yeah, what's the idea of changing your planning? I was Chief, until you changed my mind for me. I changed your mind. Sure. By forwarding Bill Conrad letter to me. That's right.

The attacking Mount Lamba Parbat over in Bhutan. I'm going to pay him a visit. Oh, look, can't, if you need a vacation... Ever heard of, uh, Cittakosas, Chief? Cittakosas, what in places is that? Well, parrot fever, you know.

Oh, sure, sure. A nearly 100% fatal tropical disease. Bill writes he's come across some on Lamba Pabak. So what? What's parrot fever to know the province of India got to do with us? Blender, I think.

Real few years back when we thought the enemy was experimenting in biological warfare. I'm sure the idea of enemy bombers blasting our cities with deadly germs had us plenty worried. Yeah. And we were looking for a certain specialist in tropical diseases.

Specialist in Peter. Right. Chung King. I had. But the plane never got there. So where's Vida? And Bhutan happens to lie almost midway between the two cities. Mmm, mmm. I'm missing scientists who specialize in tropical diseases.