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Enthusiastically interested in the black arts, Jasper Symmes '52 last month convinced Jasper McKee '51 to aid him in an extensive survey of metaphysics. The first real experiment, scheduled for this week, was to be an attempt to make contact with the devil. Symmes explained that the ritual involved drinking the blood of a white dove at midnight on a windswept field...
Alberta was sure it would get all this back, and more. Pre-season bookings at the Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes chalets were heavy, the tourist camps were sprucing up. For the overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
Success Through Failure. He plowed his field the hard way. Wedgwood kept 10,000 of the trial pieces that preceded his perfection of jasper ware (a hard white semiporcelain which took a fine blue tint). His eventual success made possible the mass production of quality pottery. His experiments took pottery out of the luxury class-and made him a millionaire...
...Monroeville, a whistle stop on Indiana's frozen countryside, a bonfire crackled and popped. The celebrating went on until 3 a.m. At Portland, two counties away, the townspeople snake-danced around another bonfire. It was the same way at Crawfordsville and Jasper. All Indiana seemed to be aglow. Indiana's 37th annual high-school basketball tourney...
Among Canada's famed skiing lands is the Banff-Jasper area of the Rockies, where the rocket-fast three-mile runs start at the 10,000-ft. level. Other thrill-seekers slide down the Douglas and Drummond glaciers. But most of the skiing is done where most of the $50 million invested in ski lodges, inns, ski tows and slopes in Canada has been spent. That is the 50-mile sweep of rolling, easily accessible Laurentian Mountains, 40 miles north of Montreal. This winter Laurentian resort operators hope to rake in over $30 million from 300,000 skiers...