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...sort, his men say, who keeps a dog and barks himself. He represents the gent-sport kind of soldier of which the East has too many. He was the best swimmer of his generation at Woolwich, is a fine golfer, a keen shot, a good skier (passed his "second class" tests at 40), an enthusiastic horseman (once whip of the Staff College drag), an experienced salmon-fisherman (in peacetime went all the way to Norway and Iceland to indulge in this pastime). He has had no jungle experience, although the War Office hopes his brief experience on the Indian North...
Fully equipped for emergencies, the patrolmen have plenty of excitement each Winter rescuing people with broken arms, legs, and hips, but even without the aid of a toboggan, Stephen Winship '42, head of the group, last Spring successfully moved an injured man down Mount Mansfield. Finding a skier with a broken ankle on one of the trails, Winship had to improvise a vehicle from skis and poles. He then guided his charge laboriously through the darkness over difficult terrain to the bottom of the mountain...
Hollywood has bought a band, a comedian (Milton Boric), a skier and skater (Sonja Henic), and turned out a top-notch cluematic vaudevillc. The plot is only a poor excuse for a number of excellent specialties and doesn'd do a very good job of pasting them together, john Payne signs up to take care of a refugee and finds a twenty-one year old Norwegian blonde on his hands. The rest of the story is how girl gets boy away from luscious Lynn Bari; the winner (surprise, surprise!) is Sonja Henic...
...Brother of famed Olympics Skier Dick Durrance...
Years ago a rich Denverite, George Ernest Cranmer, conceived the idea of making a theater of the red rocks. White-haired, eagle-eyed little Mr. Cranmer, retired broker, skier, skater, mountain-climber, became Denver's Manager of Improvements and Parks. Four years ago CCC, the National Park Service and the city began the $750,000 job of building the theater...