Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather's Good . . ." During all the hustle & bustle at Cranmore, Mont Tremblant, Sun Valley and Aspen, Andy Mead was growing up. Her parents were as ski-crazy as anybody. Near the Vermont town of Rutland, Bradford and Janet Mead were building up a resort named Pico Peak, and incidentally raising their two children, Andrea and Peter-who is now wasting his early ski training in the Air Force. Ski enthusiasts with an independent income, the Meads made an annual spring pilgrimage to Switzerland's Davos. They brought up their children on a principle which the children thoroughly approved...
Dave and Andy's first investment after the wedding was a Chevrolet station wagon, and they have put it to good use, gadding about Europe. But they do not intend to spend their lives gallivanting around the ski world. Not that they intend to give up the fun of skiing. Says Andy: "We'd like to find a business where we are our own bosses. We're both pretty independent-minded. Maybe something like ranching or farming. Anyway, we'll settle close to good skiing...
...Determined." But their primary interest, of course, was skiing. And Andy had her worries about that. She fell below expectations at Aspen's 1950 F.I.S. championships. She was sixth in slalom, ninth in giant slalom, twelfth in downhill. She didn't know what was wrong, but everything seemed to be. When the U.S. coach, Friedl Pfeiffer, suggested that she quit racing for a year, she thought nothing worse could ever happen to her. But "Friedl was right," Andy confesses. "I had been training for skiing night & day since 1947. I was losing the fun of it." Almost losing...
Lately, she has been having a lot of fun. Last winter the National Ski Association offered her-and Dave-a trip to Europe for pre-Olympic practice. A series of colds and spills wrecked Dave's trip, but Andy had one of the most fabulously successful seasons any skier could hope for. At Grindelwald she came in sixth in the downhill, second in the slalom, first in the giant slalom. Her confidence revived. Says Andy primly: "I was determined, and such were the results...
Relaxed Hillbilly. A week later, Andy and Dave celebrated by getting married. The appropriate place was Davos, scene of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...