Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the continental cafés, around the heated swimming pools, on the ski slopes, among the Hollywood stars and millionaires, the socialites and diplomats, the rich European refugees and playboys of Sun Valley, gossip was as thick as a blizzard in the Sawtooth Mountains...
Froelich was one of the handsome Austrian and German experts whom W. Averell Harriman had brought to Idaho to teach Sun Valley colonists how to ski. Mr. Harriman had imported yodeling German waiters and musicians too, but Froelich and the other Skimeisters, Tyrolean hats cocked on their heads, were the climatic touch. They whizzed around the towering cornices of the hills, swooped like eagles over the white slopes of the Sawtooth Mountains. The ladies loved them...
Froelich, in fact, had got himself married. His wife was rich Natalie Rogers, granddaughter of the late Kuhn, Loeb & Co. banking partner Louis A. Heinsheimer. Frederick (Friedl) Pfeifer had married, too: headstrong, ski-crazy Hoyt Smith, daughter of a socialite Salt Lake City banker. Sandy-haired Hans Hauser could have been married half a dozen times. But Hans was too happy-go-lucky for his own good, according to Froelich, who was able to give up the business of teaching clumsy Americans how to do "snow plows" and "stem turns," and become a colonist himself. This season...
With openings for a large number of men to service airplanes or to enlist in either the Parachute Corps or the Ski Regiment, Army officials have issued a reminder that it is still possible for one to enlist voluntarily up to the date that he receives his orders for induction according to the Selective Service Act. Those who enlist may still choose among many branches of this service for the one which they prefer...
Lindley Burton came in third, and Malcolm McNair, ski manager, was fourth. Roger Wilson, Tom Winship, Duncan Reed, and Bob Hall finished in that order. The course was arranged to permit varied running conditions...