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Last week with a good deal of hoopla NBC announced that Champion Skier Torger Tokle had agreed to broadcast his sensations while jumping at Lake Placid. Earnestly an announcer described how he was being fitted out with a 15-lb. transmitter, a mike in a mask. Then Torger swished away. There was a faint crunch of snow and nothing more. The champion, it seemed, forgot to talk...
Outstanding consistent performer is Sophomore Del Ames, erstwhile protege of Otto Schniebs at Hanover and unquestionably last year's most valuable skier. Not only does he tear down mountain trails and through tricky slaloms, but he's hard to best in the jumping and cross country events. Another lad expected to crash through this season is Finn Ferner, Norwegian dare-devil who had a bit of bad luck last year when he found New England trails a little more tortuous than the Scandinavian slopes, spending most of his racing time in the woods. As far as style goes, Ferner...
...chalet-type hostelry has been added to the facilities of Franco. It is operated by Hans Thorner, who in recent winters has conducted a ski school at Pinkham Notch. Skiers will be in forested to know that Ted Hunter, former Dartmouth and Olympic team skier who is now a student of architecture, furnished the clever plans to transform of a large house into a pleasing replies of Swiss chalet with a huge fireplace, bedroom balconies, and other typical Alpine Features. Cannon Mountain skiers can run right into the Thorner House yard by way of the Coppormine or Tucker Brook...
...Club, which absolutely anyone may join, not only in theory aims at helping both the recreational and serious skier in college, but glances at the past membership lists consistently show that this idea has been carried out. The hackers completely overshadow the "silver spooners" in both spirit and number. William Wigglesworth '41, Manager, Ski Team; Thomas Winship '41, President, Ski Club...
...rnfjell near the Swedish border, and preserve the ore railroad. The arrival at the border of 460 fugitive German "seamen" in civilian clothes, who said they were refugees from nine merchant ships sunk during the naval actions, betokened the plight of their soldier comrades under General Dietl, famed skier, organizer of winter sports at Garmwisch-Partenkirchen. The latter, called "The Bull" by his men (for his stubbornness), was said to have told his personal friend, Adolf Hitler, by radio telephone: "We have no ships. We have no artillery left. We have few anti-aircraft guns. ... A few pieces of mountain...