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...WINCHESTER FRASER Washington...
Team Manager Gretchen Fraser, who won the U.S.'s first Olympic skiing gold medal in 1948, was exuberant: "This is the first time in history that American skiers have made such a showing [one-two] in international competition. We'll have a team to reckon with at Oslo...
...trail skiing. "I couldn't get over the idea I was going like crazy," she says. She did go like crazy: first place in the slalom, her favorite because "it's more of a problem, more of a test of skill," and second place (behind Gretchen Fraser) in the downhill. At 15, Andy was on the Olympic team...
...England and Scotland, Fraser interviewed four leading spiritualists who had attended seances with the Prime Minister. From them, Fraser learned that Bachelor King had not confined his spirit contacts to his adored mother, whose constantly lighted portrait dominated King's Ottawa study and first awakened his interest in spiritualism. According to the spiritualists, King often attended two seances a week when he was in Britain, and communicated with other dead relatives, with his predecessor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with the late President Franklin Roosevelt, and even with Pat, his departed Irish terrier...
...Roosevelt spirit was more self-assured when King attended another Cummins seance in 1948. "The President told Mr. King to watch Asia-that's where the danger lay," Miss Cummins told Fraser. "The Berlin airlift which was a focus of attention then was a side issue, a Soviet bluff. There was no mention of Korea by name, but F.D.R. did say he thought there'd be war in the Far East within two years...