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...sixth winter Olympic games open today in Oslo Norway, with the running of the women's giant slalom and the first two heats of the two-man bobsled. The Slalom is held at Norefjewl and the bobsled in the Frognersteren hills. Formal opening ceremonies will be held tomorrow, contrary to custom...
There's at least one undergraduate who isn't suffering from a post-exam breakdown. Dick Button feels he is skating better than ever, and expects to hold on to his Olympic figure-skating crown when the 1952 Winter Olympics begin in Oslo, Norway, this week. The Lowell House senior has won every world title event since...
...British Allards and Sunbeam Talbots, French Simcas and Citroëns, Italian Lancias and Alfa Romeos-were as ready as they would ever be. At a series of watch-tick signals, 328 grim-faced drivers from 18 nations set out from such widely scattered starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich, Stockholm. Their goal, some 3,300 roundabout kilometers (2,000 miles) away: Monte Carlo -and a million francs (about $3,000) first prize...
Dudley Richards '54, the world's fifth ranking figure skater, who was just nosed out of a berth on the Olympic team, will fly to Oslo shortly to assist the American team if he is needed. After the Games, Richards will travel to Paris with fellow student Dick Button for the 1952 World Championships...
With the opening of the sixth Winter Olympic Games just a week off, 125 of the record 1.187 competitors have checked into Oslo, but Dick Button is still missing. The only member of the U.S. team absent, he is expected to arrive from Vienna Saturday...