Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who watched her snow-clouded rush down the mountainside were all, in a sense, mountaineers. In their world, from the Alps to the hills of Scandinavia, skiing is about the only sport worth mentioning; it is almost a way of life. And last week, with the winter Olympics in Oslo only a month away, it was getting close to the climax of the skier's year. The baggage carrier at St. Anton, the bartender at Klosters, the woodcutter at Sestriere, the gendarme at Chamonix, the hotelkeeper at Oslo were all reading the ski news: the results...
Andy Mead (the nick-and maiden names she is best known by) is the best U.S. Olympic skier. Last winter she won almost every major ski race in Europe-including the Arlberg-Kandahar downhill race, the unofficial world championship. At 19, she is a veteran of the 1948 Olympics and captain of this year's U.S. women's Olympic ski team...
...Europe, lodging, lifts, transportation and equipment are much cheaper. At Switzerland's Davos, ski lifts fan out into ten square miles of wide-open slopes. The Parsenn-Bahn offers a choice of skiing down to Jenaz, 18 miles away, or to the nearer villages of Saas, Serneus, Klosters or Wolfgang, each serviced by a whistle-stop railroad that hauls the skier right back to Davos. At Zermatt, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, a good skier can zip down to Italy for a spaghetti lunch and be back in Switzerland for dinner...
...sets her own fashion in other ways. She wears no lipstick; she has never been to a manicurist or a hairdresser. Her husband of ten months, Dave Lawrence, a strapping (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) alternate on the U.S. men's Olympic ski team, admires her style and her spirit: "I guess she thinks you ought to be the way God made you. Anyway, I like it." Dave, who is a first-class skier but not in Andy's class, is also an unvexed admirer of his wife's prowess. Austria's Christian Pravda once tried...
...further into a profession; most U.S. skiers are college men with other careers in mind. Among the U.S. men, the best bet is Salt Lake City's Jack Reddish, on Navy leave, who won a fourth in the 1950 F.I.S. (Fédération Internationale de Ski) world championships...