Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dead Sea closed for the rest of the day. On the same day the New York Times printed in honor of one man three columns of close-packed memorial notices. Demonstrations of sympathy occurred in such far-flung places as London, Jerusalem, Paris. For death had come to Felix Moritz Warburg, 66, banker, philanthropist, recognized leader of U. S. Jews...
...Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...
...Ketchum, Idaho, the Union Pacific Railroad's wintersports rival to St. Moritz, the U. S. Amateur Skiing Championships, originally scheduled for Mt. Washington, N. H., were combined with the U. S. Open. Dartmouth's astonishing Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second...
Irked when her fiancé laughs at her inability to do winter sports, the heroine .Hella Hartwich) goes to St. Moritz to learn. There she encounters two ski-larking jacks-of-all-trades (tall Walter Riml, tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with...
...have 100,000 this year. Like golfers, skiers are perpetually dissatisfied -with snow conditions, terrain, the necessity for climbing up a hill after sliding down. To find the miseries of skiing at a minimum, skiers all over the world have heretofore had to go to the Alps, preferably St. Moritz. Last week, the tiny tank town of Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum, 6,000 ft. above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built...