Word: grindelwald
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Three thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
...Waits for Me." At Grindelwald last week, Andy was not quite the best; but she wasn't trying very hard, yet. While Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, 1950 downhill champion, might grind through 50 practice runs, Andy would loaf through two, then call it quits. A tall girl (5 ft. 7½ in., 130 Ibs.), but willowy and slim, Andy doesn't take training grimly: she drinks a beer with her meals, and is usually ready to join a friend in a cup of Glüwein (mulled red wine with cinnamon, cloves and sugar). She smokes...
Albert and Elizabeth, King & Queen of the Belgians, carrying cold lunch in a knapsack, went with other tourists by cogwheel railway from Grindelwald to Jung-frau-joch (11,340 ft.) in the Swiss Alps, explored glaciers, descended unrecognized...
...Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...
...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...