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...years of Haydn-go-seek, H. C. Robbins Landon, one of the society's founders, writes in the Saturday Review of Literature: "It is (unfortunately) more profitable today to issue a symphony on records under Haydn's name than under the correct title of [say] Johann Rasper Ferdinand Gluggl, and it was just as profitable for an 18th Century publisher to follow this same course...
From his log cabin in California's Siskiyou Mountains emerged 114-year-old Ned Rasper, a testy 85-lb. Karok Indian. He growled: "When I was a boy of 15 seasons, I saw my first white men. I thought they were some kind of new animal without skins, but they made signs so we fed them...
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