Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Carnival, the ski team will fan out toward two other sabbath competitions. Coach Halsey, Laurie Griffin, Dee Bogert, Gerry Genn, and Graham Taylor will take off for the invitation jumping at Brattleboro, Vermont, and Gordie Abbott and Rod Nordblom for the Fiske Trophy Race, a slalom competition, at Woodstock, Vermont...
There were also a few events in which something like sportsmanship prevailed. Norway's Finn Helgesen set a new Olympic record of 43.1 seconds in the 500-meter skating race. Other winners...
...Sweden's husky Martin Lundstroem, who plowed his way to victory in the 11.2-mile cross-country ski race. Nineteen of the first 20 to finish were Scandinavians; the first U.S. skier came in 65th. ¶t]J Switzerland's Felix Endrich, 26, who zoomed down the perilous bobsled course (sometimes at close to 80 m.p.h.) to win the boblet (two-man sled) crown from his coach, Fritz Feierabend...
...features, and a small mustache. He had asked to be transferred from the Air Transport Command because he believed in the war, and in fighting it "violently." He also believed that we could not rationally fight Fascism abroad and not fight against the first steps toward it at home-race prejudice, for example...
Things went well from the opening gun. The medley team of Tom Woods, Chuck Hoelzer, and Watkings won their race, and were followed by a Jerry Gorman-Norris sweep in the 220 freestyle. Tom Drohan edged his Navy opponent by .83 points; Hoelzer returned to the water to take his 200 breaststroke race, and a quarter mile relay team of Art Sicular, Bob Lange, Pinney, and Jim McVickor closed the fracas...