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...funny it is!" Most sculptors would have been tempted to throw a mallet, but Gerhard Henning, Denmark's best sculptor, ignored his parrot Jakob, gave a few final taps with his hammer, and stepped back to survey his work. Before him was a life-sized figure of a Nordic maiden chiseled in grey limestone. Sculptor Henning grunted critically. His Recumbent Girl, finished last week for Copenhagen's Carlsberg museum, was his first major work in two years, and he wanted it to be perfect...
...Ecco Roma!" is her invocation. "A city of bells and hills and walls; of many trees nordic and tropical together, pine, ilex, and palm, and water and a disturbing depth of shadows; of acres of ruins, some handsome, some shabby lumps and dumps of useless masonry, sprinkled through acres of howling modernity-an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn...
...much U.S. skiing has improved since the 1936 Olympics at Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In those sorry days, the best that the U.S. top skier, Dartmouth's Dick Durrance, could do in the "Alpine" events was tenth in the downhill, tenth in the slalom. In the "Nordic" events, the best U.S. jumper was eleventh, the best 18-kilometer cross-country man was 34th...
Under normal conditions, the Norwegians could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft. flight by thick-set Simon Slaattvik, who, back home, runs a locomotive on the Norwegian state railways. His jumps gave Slaattvik a good lead in the Nordic, but he still had the rugged, 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) cross-country trek ahead of him. The man he knew he would have...
...next 26 finishers were either Swedes, Finns or Norwegians (the best a U.S. competitor could do was finish 46th), but Railroadman Slaattvik was not among them. His hopes of becoming Nordic champion melted long before he labored home in 36th place. The man he was afraid of, Finland's Hasu, made up enough cross-country points by finishing tenth to win the combined-event crown...