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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...
...former Dartmouth racer said he plans to leave for Alta, Utah and Aspen, Colo., next week before going on to Squaw Valley...
...visit came into focus with its greatest meaning to 1959. At Camp David, under a canopy of oak leaves, the President of the U.S. and the Premier of the U.S.S.R. walked and talked along winding gravel paths, lived together for three days in Ike's grey, batten-board Aspen Lodge...
...practice run at Aspen, Colo., young (23) Buddy Werner, the U.S.'s best skier, crossed his skis, breaking his leg and the hearts of U.S. ski enthusiasts, who had counted on him to snap Europe's long dominance of the sport, take the U.S.'s first-ever gold medal in the men's events at the 1960 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Squaw Valley, Calif, this February...