Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Brattleboro on the sluggish Connecticut glories in its main winter event of the year this Sunday when the Brattleboro Outing Club holds an Open Invitation Ski Jumping Tournament on Hogback Mountain just behind the town...
...main jumping tournaments of the East, it is held on a 60-meter hill with entries expected to go as high as 75 including men from Norway and Finland. The late Torger Tokle holds the record for the event with a leap of 230-feet established...
Those twenty-four hours are only the jumping off place for a flood of reminiscence that yields fifty-two flashbacks and several of the main lines of story. John Wickliff Shawnessy, a mid-century, mid-continent teacher-idealist-poet is the protagonist, and his life seems to represent the shadowy outlines of a larger history...
Although forwards John Altrocchi and Bill Mobraaton were promoted to the Varsity last week, neither has seen varsity action yet and Kopp might use them tonight rather than let them sit the main feature out on the bench...
Orchids must go all around to "The Treasure of Sierra Madre." Besides the three main characters, there is the wonderful portrayal of the child-like but evil Indian chief. There is also the excellent photography of the mountainous Mexican country and the extraordinary dramatic effects that are occasionally obtained merely through the discreet use of the camera. But John Huston, who wrote the screen play and directed, should be the chief recipient of the orchids. The story moves speedily through a number of relevant incidents that contribute to the dramatic tension and to the release that comes when the gold...