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...skier with a single pole, fitted at the bottom with a wooden disk to prevent the pole from digging too deeply into the snow, appears in an illustration from a book published in 1664. Norwegian soldiers in 1820 and a California pioneer in 1854 all used a single, Jong pole, as much for a brake on a down-hill run as for support climbing...
...seized by a German prize crew last fall, was exonerated today of misconduct charges brought before the Burean of Marine Inspection by two members of the crew who charged that Gainard could have obtained release of the vessel before it was finally freed from its Nazi captors by the Norwegian government...
Finn Ferner, the young Norwegian who unexpectedly won the best time in the informal slalom held by the Harvard club on Thorn Mountain in Jackson last Sunday, is Harvard's new find. Two weeks ago, he won several events at Mont Tremblant in Canada. Outstanding in slalom and cross country racing, he is expected to garner many points for the Crimson team in its third major meet of the year...
...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
During the three weeks the City of Flint was in Bergen harbor, busiest of her crew was Junior Third Mate Carl C. Ellis of Newtonville, Mass. When he finally sailed away, he had the promise of 22-year-old Norwegian Ruth Englesen to marry him, if he can arrange for her entry...