Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, in Hanover--65 miles to the north--a spokesman for the Daily Dartmouth said that "we'd be more than pleased to have you up here, although we're not quite sure you'd be rugged enough to last out the winters. Of course your ski team might improve under the stimulus," he said...
...luck with us?"-Mr. Simpson recedes into vagueness. The Prince returned for more and more of Wallis' beef stew-she used a recipe from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Came the day when she simply could not refuse the Prince's invitation to ski at Kitzbühl. That evening for the first time she heard her husband's "door bang." Later he went off to sleep at the Guards' Club...
...Paul Paepcke, millionaire president of Container Corp. of America, motored into the broad valley of Roaring Fork River in Colorado and determined to resurrect the sagging silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise: The Aspen Health Center...
...Minneapolis' annual "Aquatennial" wound up ten days of parades, stage and water shows (featuring the Aqua Follies, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, a water-ski circus and Rin-Tin-Tin) with Evangelist Billy Graham. In one Sunday-morning session he outpulled them all with an overflow audience of 21,000 and 500 "decisions for Christ." Aquatennial directors, said the show business weekly Variety, will try to bring him back next year. ¶ President Eisenhower signed into law a bill authorizing commercial airlines to grant reduced fares to clergymen on a "space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations...
Niarchos' routine, as a London associate observed, "is that he has no routine." However, summer usually finds him aboard the Creole, winter on the ski slopes of St. Moritz (where the toughest descent is labeled NIARCHOS RUN). In June, the menage gravitates to London for the social season. Twice in the past four years they have come to the U.S. so that his attractive young wife, Eugenie Niarchos, 26, could bear two native American sons...