Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a wet snowball in the back came an announcement from customs: ?20 ($56) duty might be charged on 55 crates of snow sent from Norway for a ski-jumping contest on London's Hampstead Heath...
...interest of the Exchequer demands the utmost effort to stimulate trade with the Polar region . . ." An Evening News cartoon pictured ogre-like customs men waiting to pounce on returning travelers. The caption read: "Ready, men? Watch out for French air in the bicycle tires, Swiss mud on the ski boots, Italian sunburn, Continental elan...
Virginia, who is now 34 and married to a Sun Valley ski instructor, admitted knowing just about every nobleman in Big Crime's hierarchy-Joe Adonis, Costello, Meyer Lansky, Charles Fischetti. But she didn't admit much more. Lolling negligently at the witness table, Virginia explained her unlimited income in short bursts of Alabama drawl: "I went with fellows. Like a lot of girls they got, giving me things and bought me everything I want . . . Whatever I ever had, outside of betting the horses, was given...
...ski team yesterday elected John G. Houser '50 of Cleveland and Kirkland House, captain. D. Neil Dickson '54 of Utica, New York and Straus Hall was elected freshman captain. Roger F. Langley, Jr. '54 is the new freshman manager...
Graham Taylor, coach of the ski team, broke his leg Saturday when he fell while competing in the Eastern Open downhill championship ski race at Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire. Taylor was the lone Crimson entry in the group of 63 skiers competing on the Mt. Wildeat trail. The first three racers broke the previous trail record by at least one second...