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...everyday event of the Sunday skier, the downhill, does not rate as a problem event for the varsity. Even the slalom is familiar to many fun skiers. But in the Nordic Combine (the jump and cross country), the coachless varsity has slipped from its previous good showing...
...secret of a downhill racer," says Toni, "is really the ability to .think ahead. A good skier looks as far ahead as possible. In my mind's eye, I'm looking even farther ahead than with my eyes. When I'm doing the Streif, I'm already thinking of the steep drop while my skis are still in the 'Mousetrap.' When I'm on the Lärchen-hand, my eyes are on the Oberhausberg, and my mind is on the final schuss...
Poindexter bases his bright hopes on the team's new material. He said that sophomore Don Stephenson is the "best four-event skier that we have." Stephenson was the captain of the freshman team last year...
...charmed a pretty brunette French teacher and accomplished skier named Collette Thomas into marriage. They lived in "a series of ghastly, sordid rooms and flats," while he scrabbled up the drawing-room-comedy ladder. Then in 1936 he made his Broadway debut in Sweet Aloes and hit the top. Back in London he starred in French Without Tears, Design for Living, No Time for Comedy. Then, to "get a bit of money," Harrison temporarily left the stage for movies (a medium he dislikes), met George Bernard Shaw himself in the course of making Major Barbara...
...Lilli have a son, Carey, who is now at a swank British prep school. "I want the boy to have the education I missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years...