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Bill Wasserman carried off double honors for the skiers as he placed first in the downhill, and won the award for the best four-event skier in the meet. John Hart won the cross-country, and Don Justice the slalom, as Harvard placed high in all but the downhill. The scores were Amherst, 376.6; Harvard, 372.9; Williams...
Among them stood an American, handsome Robert Vogeler, 38, a graduate of Annapolis and M.I.T. He had come to Hungary in 1948 as U.S. representative of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Friends in Budapest and back home knew him as a skilled sportsman (fencer, marksman, skier, golfer) and a gay companion. One day last November...
...actual process of making a pair of boots in a painstaking and tedious one. The pilgrim who travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model...
...make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
Joseph Dodge of the Appalachian Club, who led the rescue crew in its risky task, said it was Schiller's first visit to Tuckerman's Ravine, and that he was not a proficient skier...