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DIED. JACK SHEA, 91, gold-medal-winning Olympic speed skater; of injuries from a car accident; in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Shea, who won two gold medals in 1932 but refused to skate in the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany, became the patriarch of the nation's first family of three generations of Olympians. His son competed in three skiing events in 1964, and a month ago, his grandson earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic skeleton team, in which sledders go headfirst down...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt rode the last mile of the Mount Van Hoevenberg Bob Run. Mrs. Roosevelt had ridden on the Mirror Lake Toboggan Slide several times previous to her experiment on the big run on a sled piloted by Henry Homburger [a Winter Games medalist] of the Saranac Lake Red Devils, but expressed a desire to ride on the track which had put so many contestants on the hospital lists...
...came to Harvard in 1943 from Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...
...Howard was a fascinating place in itself. It was the last of the old-time burlesques, with comics, jugglers and strippers," he recalls. "Even before I arrived at Harvard, the people up at Saranac Lake said 'Don't forget the Old Howard...
...dozen years of Stevenson's life saw him wandering with amazing optimism, usually accompanied by his mother, Fanny and her children, and a long-suffering maid whom Fanny abused. The quest was for a climate his bleeding lungs and Fanny's vapors could tolerate. He tried Davos in Switzerland, Saranac Lake in New York State, a deserted mining camp above California's Napa Valley, and finally Hawaii and the South Pacific. His pattern was to write (and drink, converse, hike and sail) to exhaustion and illness; Fanny's was marital chess playing, countering his real collapses with her vividly enacted...