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Coached by Charlie Proctor, former Olympic skier from Dartmouth, the Crimson skiers spent last Sunday practicing on the tricky corners which provide the obstacles on the Wildcat descent. Feeling confident in their knowledge of the run, Captain Adams Carter and his mates hope to place well up among 47 skiers already entered in the event...
...Olympic bell rang. All the church bells of Garmisch tinkled in response. A cannon, lugged into the arena by oxen, boomed. The bands played the Olympic hymn. The crowd cheered, clapped, yelped "Heils" that echoed down from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right arm in Olympic salute, touched the flag of the German delegation with his left hand and recited the Olympic oath: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting...
Durrance, a skier famed for his speed and acrobatics, is one of the three Dartmouth men in Germany with the Olympic team. It was in this race that Shaw also got his second class rating...
Sirs: As Moslems turn to Mecca, as Jews turn to Zion, so all U. S. skiers turn to Red Wing. Your ski article [TIME, Jan. 13] was much like a production of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Red Wing has the oldest ski club in the V. S., the oldest skier in the U. S., the best natural ski slide in America, several former national champions and thousands of loyal Norse citizens who would rather ski than eat lutefisk. J. R. P. KERNAN
Livermore in his undergraduate days is said to have skied downstairs and jumped out the door every morning on his way to classes, while Bright is famed as a wild man skier and takes long chances. He astonished everyone in Europe last year by his amazing speed...