Word: skied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nightmare White. Last week a ski-equipped C-47 of the 10th Rescue Squadron ferried Fletcher, Captain Marion F. Brinegar and Norwegian-born Dr. Kaare Rodahl, Arctic expert, to T3. C-54 mother ships flew along to navigate and drop supplies. The only newsman on the expedition: LIFE Photographer George Silk...
...nightmare of white haze, white snow and blinding Arctic glare, the C-47 pilot picked out a landing area. Time after time he skimmed low over the island, slapping his skis on hummocks of ice, skipping from crest to crest like a stone over water. For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt. Photographer Silk crawled from the plane to shoot his pictures.* General Old, who had flown as copilot, trudged back up the plane's ski tracks in the 60°-below-zero cold...
...paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide to Governor General Vincent Massey. He was, he said, "a summer sports man. I don't ski or skate, but I expect to enjoy my visit to Canada very much...
Four bare points would have given Crimson skiers third place, but as it was they could fare no better than seventh at the Ski Club's annual invitation meet at Big Bromley yesterday. Middlebury emerged victor over a field of 12 of the East's top teams...
...event, a giant slalom, Harvard will enter Kris Lehmkuhl, Harry Gardner, George Wilson, president of the Ski Club, who is in charge of the meet, Whitey Black, and Captain John Houser in that order...