Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than to any other single person in the world, is attributable skiing's current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize was his first pair of real skis. Hannes Schneider decided that, for long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes, standing up straight on skis was impractical. He started...
...This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers is the argument about the Arlberg v. Norwegian technique. In the U. S., where Erling Stromm, ski teacher at the Lake Placid Club, is the No. 1 exponent of the Norwegian school, the Arlberg technique is currently gaining momentum...
Whatever they thought of the spring season, people were more enthusiastic last winter than they had been since Depression. For this Soprano Kirsten Flagstad did more than her share. The big, blonde Norwegian had blazed overnight into Metropolitan supremacy in the last weeks of Gatti's reign. Hailed as one of the great Isoldes in history, she came to Johnson for her first full season, fortifying what was already the finest German wing in the world...
Unhappily the discord was already far advanced. The entire German Press had been thundering for days that the Nobel award to a "traitor" was an "insult" to Germany, hinted strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor...
Last summer Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurated a 1,000-mile airline up the rugged coast of Norway to Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world (TIME, June 8). Last week, two Sikorsky 543 amphibians left Connecticut to fly to South America to inaugurate a 1,000-mile airline down the rugged coast of Chile to Magallenes, southernmost port in the world...