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...North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer than...
...seven weeks the Allies had been balked by a tall, lithe athlete of 49, whose starving troops call him "The Bull." Olympic athletes of 1936 remember him, Lieut. General Eduard Dietl, as organizer of the winter sports program at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His division of mountain troops, which he trained himself and led, as he did all things, with fierce personal daring through the Carpathians in last autumn's Polish campaign, was bottled up when British destroyers and the battleship Warspite blasted into Narvik on April 12. Steely and aquiline, Bull Dietl is said to have gone aloft...
...preserve the ore railroad. The arrival at the border of 460 fugitive German "seamen" in civilian clothes, who said they were refugees from nine merchant ships sunk during the naval actions, betokened the plight of their soldier comrades under General Dietl, famed skier, organizer of winter sports at Garmwisch-Partenkirchen. The latter, called "The Bull" by his men (for his stubbornness), was said to have told his personal friend, Adolf Hitler, by radio telephone: "We have no ships. We have no artillery left. We have few anti-aircraft guns. ... A few pieces of mountain artillery would be invaluable." In their...
...just as the 1916 Olympics, scheduled for Berlin, were called off because of World War I. Although Germany was mum on the subject last week, sportsmen the world over took it for granted that the 1940 Winter Olympics were off. They had been awarded to Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen after Japan had chucked them, along with the summer Olympics, because of the "incident" in China...
...guest-conducting at one of Germany's numerous opera-houses and concert-halls (he is also one of Germany's top-notch orchestra leaders), Strauss lives quietly and well with his wife and seven servants at his home in the little Bavarian mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Originally the Villa Strauss at Zöppritzstrasse No. 46, was a simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home...