Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everybody who was anybody knew Freddy McEvoy. Born to obscurity, the tall, handsome, 44-year-old Australian had the gift of making friends, news, money, and marrying heiresses. His feats of derring-do on the high seas, in the game-filled jungles of Africa and on the icy ski runs of Switzerland gave the international set a vicarious sense of adventure, and earned him the nickname Suicide Freddy. His zesty approach to business matters-he launched the fashion of flowered shirts for men by selling his own right off his back to an Argentine millionaire for $2,000-made...
Another department, the Winter Sports, is currently praying for snow, which is late this year, so it can take to the ski trails and show neophytes the techniques it has been demonstrating all fall in the classroom...
...Harvard Ski Club will hold an informational meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett Junior Common Room. The club, which is an official College representative in intercollegiate competition, expects to have a better than usual squad this year...
...than a year after the Korean war began, six months after the President proclaimed a national emergency, there is no trace of stern austerity, though the nation is both fighting a big war and mobilizing against the threat of a bigger one. Stores still bulge with everything from aluminum ski poles at $7.95 a pair to metal-hulled cabin cruisers at $5,500 each. Most corporate profits are at record-breaking levels or close to it. So are prices-and so too are wages. Instead of becoming a garrison state, the U.S. could tell itself-for the moment, at least...
...Paso, on her way to Spokane, Mob-land's pin-up moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted...