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...shares of stock (out of 4,150,000 outstanding), the Odlum interests turned over to Lisbon 15 promising uranium claims in southeast Utah and cash for diamond-drilling with a total value of $930,000. The claims are all near the rich mine started by Charlie Steen (TIME, Aug. 3), the first millionaire prospector of the uranium age. Lisbon, whose stock has shot up from 20? when it was first issued in February to around $2.75, planned to start drilling operations this week...
...Sunday, Aug. 24, 1873, pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...
Bregenz, Austria (July 24-Aug. 15): large-scale concerts, ballet, drama and a gala performance of Die Fledermaus on a stage floating in Lake Constance...
...Conference last week was London and Manhattan Communist Daily Worker Correspondent Wilfred Burchett. Australian-born Correspondent Burchett was last seen by Western newsmen in Korea, where he worked as a Red propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated the pessimism among conespondents of all nations...
...during the winter at home. In Prades (June 7-20), the Casals Festival will offer Beethoven chamber music (top visiting artist: Rudolf Serkin). At Amsterdam, The Hague and Scheveninge (June 15-July 15), visiting conductors will lead the Concertgebouw, The Hague Residentie and BBC symphonies. At Bayreuth (July 22-Aug. 22), Wagner's two grandsons will mount seven of the master's music dramas. Salzburg (July 25-Aug. 30), as usual, will specialize in Mozart, but will also include the world premiere of Penelope, a new opera by a contemporary Swiss composer, Rolf Liebermann. At Edinburgh (Aug...