Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Studded with former eastern college hockey greats, the A.H.A.'s hockey team, which notched an unofficial fourth place at the St. Moritz Olympic games, has moved on for tilts with foreign squads elsewhere on the continent before returning to the states February...
...winter Olympics opened with a maximum of angry yammering and a minimum of friendly yodeling. First, everybody mumbled all the fine words about "amity and good will." Then they went on with their scrapping. The Swedes charged that the games were being run for the benefit of St. Moritz hotels and shops. The British, of all people, deplored the emphasis on afternoon tea. The steering wheel of a U.S. bobsled was tampered with, and shrieks of "Sabotage!" echoed through the Alps and re-echoed across U.S. sport pages. But all this was nothing beside the War over the Two American...
...Skating mamas" are a strange breed, like the mothers of violin prodigies and child movie stars. They watch over their daughters like circling hawks, and fuss around them like anxious hens. This week, as usual, they will sit around hotel lobbies in St. Moritz, discussing other skating mothers who are out of earshot-and their daughters. Mrs. Scott is understandably possessive and protective of her daughter, but does her best to avoid the infighting among "skating mamas." She wants Barbara Ann to stay as she is: winning titles by trying harder and being more precise than her rivals...
...bills at her. Says Barbara Ann: "I wish people would stop saying I am going to turn professional all the time. There is no world competition in professional skating-and I like competition." This was obviously the right thing to say at this point, said the cynics at St. Moritz...
Olympic Games. Reporting from St. Moritz: CBS's Red Barber and NBC's Henry Cassidy (beginning...