To: ManyMoose who wrote (245136 ) 4/10/2008 10:50:32 AM From: the_wheel Read Replies (1) | Respond to Was the German Girl named Ilse ?Hillary Also from Upstate NY ????gorilla ; poet Adelaide Crapsey, whose single year spent at Saranac "secured her place in American letters"; chainsmoker Robert Louis Stevenson; library scientist Melvil Dewey, founder of the Lake Placid Club, which became infamous for excluding Jews from its membership; cereal heiress Marjorie Post, whose four husbands included financier E. F. Hutton and FDR's ambassador to the Soviet Union , Joseph E. Davies (author of Mission to Moscow; and Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who became a hero of Communist China . Saranac was indeed a magic mountain, especially as recreated by Boston Globe book and art critic Taylor. Photos not seen by PW.amazon.co.jp depressed area.Post , the heiress to the Post cereal fortune. Famous for her imperial hospitality, she had guests brought in by the world's largest private plane and carried up to private cabins by cable car. Topridge had 68 buildings and a staff of 85. When Mr. Taylor focuses on such seemingly unrelated sojourners at Saranac Lake in the 30's and 40's as Albert Einstein, Manuel Quezon (the first President of the Philippines) and Bela Bartok, we may feel that he could have used any resort as his theme. But he could point out that it was not by accident that an American resort became a haven for such political refugees. FOR a dozen summers an aging Einstein found sailing on Lake Flower a soothing throwback to boating on the Havelsee outside Berlin in pre-Hitler days. And when Quezon was airlifted out of Manila during World War II to escape possible capture by the Japanese , he was brought to America . As a longtime sufferer from tuberculosis, he was soon sent to Saranac Lake. Dreaming to the very end of returning to his homeland. He died at Saranac in 1944.oppressed in 1940 by the spread of Nazi influence in Hungary as well as the gibes of Budapest music critics , emigrated with his wife to New York. But discouraged by the dislocation , lack of income, neglect of his works, lung trouble and the onset of leukemia, he composed nothing for three years. Then a commission from Serge Koussevitzky and a summer at Saranac Lake revived him miraculously , and he completed his Concerto for Orchestra, which would be hailed as a work of great richness .query.nytimes.com
