Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slalom; at Bad Gas-tein. Competing against Olympic squad members of six nations, Skier Lawrence twisted & turned through the 42-gate course of 1,100 yards in 2102.5, more than three seconds faster than Austria's Erika Mahringer. Third, further boosting U.S. Olympic hopes: Seattle's Janette Burr. CJ ¶Ex-Wisconsin Runner Don Gehrmann, the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile, with a characteristic kick sprint that nipped FBI-Man Fred Wilt by 5 ft. Gehrmann's time, breaking the meet record by more than a second: 4:10.2. Next night, in Boston, Gehrmann did it again. Time...
...week, Andy swooped down the mountainside with the rush and sparkle of a Vermont freshet, and was right up with the winners: second in the tricky slalom (behind Switzerland's Madeleine Berthod); third in the daredevil downhill (behind Austria's Trude Beiser, the U.S.'s Janette Burr), where sheer speed is the payoff; first in the giant slalom, where both speed and control count...
Andy's one-two-three performance in the three events showed her remarkable versatility. But another U.S. skier, Seattle's Janette Burr, who stays in shape by water skiing in the summer, won the top title. Janette's second place in the downhill and her fifth in the slalom added up, on the basis of elapsed time, to a better performance than Andy's second and third places in the two events. Andy's victory in the giant slalom (Janette was tied for eleventh) did not count in the "combined" totals which decide the Swiss...
...Docherty. For 20 months, black-browed Dr. Docherty had preached in his soft Scottish burr in the modernistic Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, and it was considered a measure of his success that even under this handicap, the church not only held its 1,700-odd members but even increased its rolls by about...
...cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist after a three-horse pileup. His slashing style ("If you're not squawling at the jockeys, you're squawling at your horse") may have cost him some winners, but Charlie Burr, at 17, can afford to be philosophic about it: his 301 winners and some 700 other mounts this year have netted him more than...