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Thus last week the free Swiss acted out the ceremony that gave them their freedom. Six hundred and fifty years before, representatives of the three "forest cantons" of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden had gathered in the same glade to light a fire symbolizing their confederation against the house of Habsburg. To celebrate their independence day the Swiss every year build huge leaping bonfires instead of shooting off fireworks...
...perfect downhill course would have at least one big schuss (straightaway) for speeds of 60 m.p.h., or better; a second, gentler schuss, full of bumps; a broad, winding glade through rocks and trees...
...line, winds through wooded traverses, over rocky slopes, abandoned mine shafts, ending in a sharp pitch with an abrupt runout at the finish. Six times an old mining road crosses the course. Chief hazard, however, is the "Big Corkscrew"-five great curves down a 34-degree slope through a glade 50 feet wide. Those who take it in tight curves close to the centre line pick up so much speed that they have no choice but to jump the abandoned road at the bottom...
...Metropolitan pay that Flagstad gets: $1,000 a performance) can stand the wear & tear of Siegfried's "Forge Song" and Siegmund's stentorian "Wälse Wälse" without straining a capillary. But what impresses Wagnerites is his ability to color Wagner's mystical, mountain-glade poetry with just the right shade of Teutonic Weltschmerz, his solemn evocation of all the Nibelungenlied's nature-nourished gnomes and demigods. When Melchior sings, Wagnerites forget the Metropolitan's tattered backdrops and seem to see the green Rhine and the doom-cragged, primeval mountains of Gothic legend...
...band played Maryland, My Maryland, Challedon and his owner, William L. Brann, standing in the winner's circle, received one of the loudest ovations in the history of 68-year-old Pimlico. For Challedon, foaled at Owner Brann's Glade Valley Farm 70 miles away, was the first Maryland-bred, Maryland-owned winner of Maryland's beloved Preakness since 1877. Rewarding his owner with $53,710, richest prize of the year for three-year-olds, Challedon became the leading money-winner among his contemporaries (foals of 1936). Johnstown has won $103,295. Challedon's total...