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Stay-at-Home. At home, with his handsome wife Elizabeth (a sister of ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius***), Trippe is a relaxed and placid parent, a two-Scotches-before-dinner man who likes to hear all about his four children's day in school. The Trippes see little of Manhattan's night life. They usually spend Trippe's off hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once...
When the weather is right, any Lake Placid winter tourist can buy the thrill of a lifetime-a ride down Mt. Van Hoeven-berg's famed bobsled run. He only has to lay down $1.50 and sign a waiver relieving the State of New York* of all responsibility. Since nobody on the tourist runs is out for the record and the rear crewman rides hard on the brake, the passenger is safe enough. In competition it's different...
...Casey didn't get a chance to tell him. Next time down, the French sled careened high up the wall and was jerked down too suddenly: it crashed against the inside wall, and the public-address system blurted, "81, Shady . . . 81, Shady" (Lake Placid code for "send the ambulance"). The Frenchmen were rushed to the hospital for treatment of their injuries...
...after workmen had spent all night spraying 20,000 gallons of water on the run to make it smoother and faster, Brakeman Bill Casey and his U.S. fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they tucked down...
Four American Landscapes (Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 8 sides). Includes music by Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland and Henry F. Gilbert, but chiefly worthwhile for Charles Ives's remarkable, polytonically placid Housatonic at Stockbridge, from his Three Places in New Eng land (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948). Performance and recording: fair...