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Rides. The Midway has a full Coney-Island quota of thrill machines-whizzing bobsled rides, stratoships, turtle chases, roller coasters. Dwarfing them all is Life Savers' 250-foot Parachute Jump. Using hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Irked when her fiancé laughs at her inability to do winter sports, the heroine .Hella Hartwich) goes to St. Moritz to learn. There she encounters two ski-larking jacks-of-all-trades (tall Walter Riml, tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

As scene of the games which were held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928 and Lake Placid in 1932, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was selected two years ago because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Games at Garmisch | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

In Joliet, Ill.'s Stateville Prison, guards opened the gates to let a truck drive out of the snow-covered yard, slammed them shut again when they spied six convicts sitting blandly on a bobsled hitched to the truck's rear axle.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Walking along Washington's 24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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