Word: nordics
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Harvard's strongest entry will be in the slalom, but will be considerably weaker in the Nordic events. At Middlebury, Don Stephenson finished fifth in the slalom, and at Dartmouth, Al Arkley placed fourteenth in the downhill. Both will be counted on heavily today...
Although the Nordic squad will be weakened by the absence of Captain Joe Poindexter, the team is in better condition than last week. However, Middlebury presents the challenge of a 55 meter ski jump, the longest at all the winter carnivals...
...Harl Cook, a fortyish man whose sideburns are frankly graying, and his Norwegian wife Tulla, a handsome Nordic blond who leads one to believe that American ways agree with her. Both show good taste and candor, and come to Cambridge after successfully establishing a similar shop in Provincetown...
...stands, however, he has a long string of improbabilities laced with bad dialogue and characterization, particularly in supporting roles. What he has is a typically exciting spy-war-fare film with a couple of good performances. Oskar Werner, a blond and proud Nordic youth, comes off very well indeed because he has little to say, and no script-writer to louse up his sincerity. Everyone else--particularly Gary Merrill and Richard Basehart--acts in the best tradition of a class B film unit on location in Europe for the first time. This means lots of gutsy tough guys swimming...
This was our first really close look at the dancers. Only one of the men looked frail and particularly feminine, the others were slight but athletic. Their faces were chiselled. I thought of the sketch of Kirkegaard by Manet with its Nordic impishness. The women were lovely, budding, blossoming and fading with each costume change. Against the gossamer of the skirts were beautifully developed supple legs...