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...Choir was assisted by contralto Claire Smith, baritone Robert Simon, and six instrumentalists playing recorders, viols, lute and harp. The performance of one of Isaak's beautiful settings of the popular Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen showed three ways in which such pieces were executed in the Renaissance: the first verse by chorus alone, the second by Simon and three instruments, the third by chorus and instruments combined. (The Durer water colors of Inns bruck in the exhibition made clear why so many people hated to leave the little town.) With Simon and a lutanist at hand, I wonder...
Toni Matt's record for the American Inferno in 1939, when he skied 3.8 miles from the top of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch, N.H., with a vertical descent of 4,300 feet, is 6 minutes 30 seconds. Sig Engl plummeted down Mt. Lassen, Calif, in 1940 over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...
...news of Gold Rush Album is that such superb pictorial records of the migration were kept. Editor Jackson's collection begins with pastoral glimpses of California, includes the early accounts of the discovery of gold, and scenes along the various routes-the Lassen Road, the Salt Lake-Los Angeles road, the southwestern route through Santa Fe, Tucson and Fort Yuma, the route across the Isthmus, the voyages around the Cape. It includes as well such unexpected items as eleven pages of the work of two Cuban artists, Augusto Ferran and Jose Baturone, whose quaintly bearded, drunken and belligerent miners...
Dream of many a big-city newspaperman is a small-town newspaper all his own. For 99%, it remains a dream. One of the one-percenters is Theodore Friend, 45. Last week he gave up his job on the New York Mirror to go west to publish the Lassen Advocate-a pint-sized (cir. 2,100), 78-year-old weekly in Susanville, Calif...
...lonesome enough. He says: "People should be lonely once in a while; it's good for you." He tried to escape to a farm in New Jersey. Even that didn't arrest his thinning hair, and it meant 80 miles of commuting daily. He bought the Lassen Advocate for some $25,000 and stopped commuting...