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...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 of the Swiss National championships. And this dark-haired, blue-grey-eyed American girl was very much...
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...
Three thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
...meet between Eastern Colleges and Ski clubs, Hart finished 12 minutes behind winner George Kurronon of the Finish Ski Club, in the grueling nine-mile cross-country course. Trailing Hart by three and a half minutes, skier Jim Lawson '52, finishing second for the Crimson, placed 18th in the race...
...resident of Dunster House who without doubt must be considered the Eroteric Sport champion of Harvard University. In a world where football, baseball, and basketball dominate spectator interest and the sport pages. Hart has plugged steadily along and is now firmly established as the finest single scaller, cross-country skier, and Wellesley bike racer in the University...