Word: aksel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Eisenhower went back to Denver from his vacation-within-a-vacation at Aksel Nielsen's rustic camp (TIME, Sept. 7), and resumed his schedule of work & play. The President was refreshed and jaunty after a week in the air-cooled Rockies, although his bruised elbow had cut into his fishing (he did catch the biggest fish of the week, a 15⅜ in., 1¼ lb. rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman...
...presidential party turned off Route 40 into a side road a mile outside town, and pushed on down the lane to the 1,900-acre ranch of Danish-born Aksel Nielsen, an Eisenhower family friend and financial adviser since the early '30s. Making an immediate break for his cabin, Ike shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch...
...Chant. Once last week Ike passed up golf to go fishing. With Denver Mortgage Banker Aksel Nielsen, an old family friend, he drove out into the Rockies to South Platte River. On his third cast, Ike hooked a ten-inch rainbow trout, and by noontime he and Nielsen had pulled in a dozen. At that point Ike took complete command of the party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where...
Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (Aksel Schiötz, tenor; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia). Danish Tenor Schiötz sings with incredible ease and warmth, gives Beethoven's famed song cycle its full, expressive measure...