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...minor compared to some he has heard of since : an old farmer in Georgia who tricked experts and promoters into paying $150,000 for worthless gravel; the celebrated Mulatos salting by which an exhausted mine was sold for $1,575,000. Baragwanath's friend Joslin met a still trickier game. Inspecting a claim near Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded. Another company took such tests despite the clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mining Engineer | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...conservatoire," one and all. With much gusto two of these attacked a most modern sonata, compounded of unconvincing fifths, dissonances and Debussyesque decoration, with which Albert Huybrechts, young Belgian, had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize for 1926.* Compositions by. other Belgians-rich, sensuous Cesar Franck and trickier Joseph Jongen, little-known chief of the Brussels Conservatory. The afternoon was devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known that the group of Russian peasant songs sung by Baritone Boris Saslavsky was arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Festival | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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