Word: aspen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from sleek Couturier Oleg Cassini, a retarded daughter (Gene had German measles during the pregnancy) and five years, off and on, as a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Last week she decided that she was strong enough to make a clean break with those bad bygone years. In Aspen, Colo.'s Community Church, she married Houston Oilman W. (for William) Howard Lee, 51, freshly divorced from his second wife, ex-Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr. Lee had courted Gene while she clerked in a dress shop in Topeka as an outpatient in Kansas' renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced...
Philosophy in Sauna. High in the Rockies he came upon what had once been a boom town that had boasted 16 hotels, three theaters and an opera house. It was called Aspen, and with a population of 600, it was still alive only because it happened to be a county seat. To Paepcke, it brought back memories of the great resorts of the Alps, and little by little he began buying up the place. What he had in mind was a cultural center, the like of which the U.S. had never seen...
...Aspen's disgruntled inhabitants, he was known contemptuously as "The Baron." But soon ski lodges, hotels, a health center and an amphitheater rose where nothing had been before. The winter, according to Paepcke, could be the time for sport; but the summer was to be reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said...
...Impact. But even before Aspen opened, Paepcke had made his name known. "There are two ways you can make an impact on people," he explained. "Either give them a million dollars or spit in their faces. I can't give them a million, and I don't want to spit in anyone's face. But I can interest them, and that is what I'm trying to do in my ads." Paepcke had hit upon the idea of illustrating the "Great Ideas of Western Man" in a series of ads painted by top artists...
Died. Walter Paul Paepcke, 63, founder-chairman of Container Corp. of America, driving force in the development of Aspen, Colo.; in Chicago...