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Bearded Zdansky was a pioneer in modern skiing technique. According to the Widener exhibit he invented the Lilienfeld binding, which is allegedly the first efficient harness. Zdansky, moreover, was an ardent exponent of the Alpine School, which came to blows more than once with the Norwegian school. At the turn of the century the dispute between the two schools was partially mitigated by a mutual acceptance of the telemark and the open christiania as the only proper turns. A photograph of the Kandahar race of 1930 shows innumerable different schools, all acceptable...
...Paul A. von Lilienfeld Toal, once an employe of the Silver Shirts, now an employe of the North German Lloyd line at Philadelphia, admitted writing and disseminating the following letter: "Reputable investigators seeking to establish correctly the Roosevelt genealogy are forced to the conclusion that the President's forbears were Dutch Jews by the original name of Rosenfeld, inasmuch as they can find no trace of the Roosevelts in the vital statistics of Holland. This is not meant to disparage the President or his forbears. It is mentioned to possibly explain the present Mr. Roosevelt's extraordinary leaning...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Lilienfeld's Positive Electrone." Dr. H. N. Davis, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...