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...crowd was not disappointed. With gaping mouths it watched jumper after jumper slant through the air-eight with leaps of over 200 ft.-but it was 130-lb. Birger Ruud who made the spectators gasp with his prodigious and perfect jump of 216 ft., a whizzing arc ending with the wood slapping evenly on the hard snow...
...entry list looked like an Oslo telephone directory. Sprinkled among the Class A competitors were a few native Americans but the majority were Norwegians sojourning in the U. S. A dozen or so were topflight, but the performer the crowd had really come to see was Birger Ruud, the No. 1 product of Norway's extraordinary ski-training system...
...skiing is being published this week. Skiing, the International Sport* contains 21 articles on every phase of skiing by the world's leading authorities. It contains nine reproductions of paintings in full color and 250 photographs. Some of the authors, notably Richard Durrance, Arnold Lunn, Charles Proctor and Birger Ruud, will be skiing in the U. S. this winter...
...BIRGER DE BÜLOW STRUENSEE VAN DAMM Copenhagen, Denmark...
Most remarkable criminal confession obtained by Reporter Rogers was in the middle 1920s, when Charles Birger and his gunmen were terrorizing "Bloody Williamson" County in southern Illinois. Impressing the Birger mob by his revolver marksmanship on empty beer bottles, Reporter Rogers became so chummy with a thug named Arthur Newman that in 1927 Newman confessed to the Post-Dispatch how he and Birger had murdered State Policeman Lory Price and his wife. Officials had never been able to find Mrs. Price's body; Rogers' revelations located it in an abandoned mine shaft. Newman was jailed for life. Charlie...