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...Greene, 24. Although she was the defending ladies' Alpine skiing champion, Nancy's chances seemed hopeless after she fell badly last month and strained the ligaments in an ankle. Last week, vowing "I'll either win or I'll fall," she strapped on her white helmet with TIGER emblazoned across the front and slashed through the giant slalom course with such abandon that she beat Runner-Up Annie Famose of France for the gold medal by almost three seconds...
Arrayed in a red helmet, orange sweat shirt, baggy black pants and borrowed skates, McCarthy gamely ventured onto a rink in Concord for his first hockey match since 1938, when he was high scorer for St. John's University in Minnesota. During nine minutes on the ice, he took one spectacular spill and "got a little wobbly" toward the end, as an opposing player put "it. But he also delivered a devastating body check and captured the puck in three face-offs. When it was over, a puffing McCarthy declared: "I didn't think they were that tough...
...frequently goes about shod in sandals made from rubber tires. Yet there are streaks of vanity in him. Because of his short stature (5 ft.), he likes to stand on boxes to deliver his speeches. On visits to his troops, he is liable to shuck his uniform, four-starred helmet and all, and show up dressed conspicuously in civilian clothes. He is a ruthless taskmaster, utterly contemptuous of the value of human life-even that of his own troops. "Every minute, thousands of men die all over the world," he tells his officers. "The life and death of human beings...
Died. Tsougouharu Foujita, 81, Japanese-born painter who settled in France; of cancer; in Zurich. An eccentric off canvas as well as on, Foujita reached Paris in 1913 in purple morning coat and pith helmet, went on to hobnob with the brilliant and the bizarre in the Montmartre of the '20s. He painted cats by the thousands and almost as many catlike women, achieving the first real fusion of Oriental brushwork and Western oils. He topped off his career in 1966 with a set of giant frescoes for a specially built chapel near Rheims, hoping cheerfully to "atone...
...other pro players complain that helmets are hot and cumbersome. What's more, says ex-Chicago Coach Johnny Gottselig: "A guy wearing a helmet invites attention. Players are apt to give him a few extra raps on the skull, figuring they won't hurt...