Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances neither Mrs. Simpson's having begun to go to select little bridge parties in Cannes last week, nor the Duke of Windsor's convalescence from his abdication jitters in the hands of Austrian doctors seemed exactly news (see p. 31). In a formal statement, which badgered Mrs. Simpson released at Cannes, it was stated that "no rift of any sort" had come between herself and the Duke of Windsor. In the Austrian Castle whose chatelaine is beauteous Baroness Rothschild, the Duke several times each day last week telephoned Mrs. Simpson...
Cost of the Sun Valley development was about that of one of Producer Goldwyn's colossal spectacles-$1,000,000. When the skiing boom started, Union Pacific's Chair-man William Averell Harriman dispatched Count Felix Schaffgotsch, expert Austrian skier, on a 5,000 mi. trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks...
Baron Rothschild closely accompanied his Baroness and the Duke when they played a round of golf on the castle's private links, and the Austrian caddy said that his Royal Highness continually sang snatches of popular tunes...
...Duke's hostess is beauteous onetime Miss Catharine Wolff of Philadelphia, rated "one of the 20 best-dressed women in the world." She was Protestant with her first husband (a Mr. Spotswood), Roman Catholic with her second (an Austrian count), and espoused the Jewish persuasion to marry her present Rothschild. Queen Victoria piously claimed that the British Royal Family are descended from Biblical David, "King of the Jews," and it was this which caused "David" to be made not only one of the names of Edward VIII but the name by which his family always called...
...teacher by St. Anton's Hotel Post when he was 17, Hannes Schneider taught the hotel guests to ski in a crouch. During his ample spare time, he gave free lessons in skiing and crouching to St. Anton villagers. During the War, he served with the Austrian Army, first in Russia, then in the Alps. Officers whom he had taught at St. Anton got him the job of teaching skiing to officers in all the Alpine regiments. During the War, Hannes Schneider perfected his own technique in new directions. Favorite turn of Norwegian skiers was the dignified Telemark, executed...