Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waves began to subside, and the men lay face down. Fleming felt ice in his eyes, on his back, in his hair. The three exchanged nonsensical gibberish. Then Mays prayed. But Strzelecki slipped from the raft, clinging weakly to the side. The others, too spent to pull him aboard, held him for more than an hour. Strzelecki sobbed...
With so little practice time behind the full team, Coach Cooney Weiland is naturally reluctant to make many predictions about the season. He has definite hopes of retaining the Ivy ice championship--Crimson property since the establishment of the League--but the going may be rough...
What keeps the managers of Holiday on Ice from throwing up their hands and going into the plumbing supply business is the fact that, for all its loony complications, the show turns a cool buck. Holiday Inc. grossed more than $10 million (more than half of it overseas) with six companies last season, expects to do $9,000,000 with five troupes this year...
Enter Old Betsy. The kind of expensive, splashy icetravaganza mounted in the mudflats of New Delhi last week was launched in 1936 when Professional Skaters Oscar Johnson and Eddie and Roy Shipstad teamed up in the Ice Follies, were followed the next year by Sonja Henie in Arthur Wirtz's Hollywood Ice...
Revue (which died of atrophy two years ago). In 1939 along came the Ice Capades, now the nation's largest, with two separate companies touring the U.S. (last year's gross: about $10 million). When Minneapolis Restaurateur Morris Chal-fen bought tiny Holiday Inc. in 1945, the Big Three had successfully tied up all major U.S. ice palaces...