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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...
...Even greenhorn traveling salesmen knew enough to keep away from Albany, Ga. last week. They knew its two hotels would be crammed to the cashier's cot, its storekeepers loath to talk about anything but dogs. For Albany (pronounced All-Benny), a thriving little city of 19,000, is the hub of some of the best quail-hunting grounds in the world. There last week was held a bird-dog trial as sacred to Albany as the Derby is to Louisville...
...since he had made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket shops at their own game until they refused to take his business. With $2,500 in his pocket, 21 years behind him, he lit out for Wall Street...
...owner of a Long Island roller-skating rink, had never entered a race before, was so green he did not know what the checkered flag meant. But by steadily cruising around at 45 m.p.h.-in the last heat he was moving so slowly officials flagged him off the course-Greenhorn Allen, like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, won the hallowed Gold...
...dropped about 19%, but before the war was out they increased more than 100% over the prewar figures (a substantial increase although partially deceptive because of higher prices). This time the problem is being tackled at the beginning of the war, and the U. S. is no longer a greenhorn in Latin American trade...