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...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Now There Is One | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Reservations for the course should be airmailed to Birger Rund, Kongsberg, Norway, not later than December 19. Applicants may write for additional information to Thor Gabrielson, 18 Kimball Street, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Ski Resorts Open Snowy Arms | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

Skiers ignored Hitler's demand for 20 blond Aryans to compete at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Himmler went to Norway and repeated the invitation, with threats. No results. Olympic Champion Birger Ruud announced that he would burn his skis before he would compete in compulsory Germanic sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes on Strike | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Eventually released because of tuberculosis, he will be too weak to jump this winter. His famed brothers, Birger and Sigmund, who both cleared 70 meters at last winter's meet, will also be missing. They are in Kongsvinger prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes on Strike | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Tokle was just another ski rider. But in the U. S. he was a sensation. Here was a greenhorn who could jump 157 ft. on sea legs. He lacked the elegant style of Olympic Champion Birger Ruud and Norwegian Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yumper | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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