Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union Freshmen will have a chance to hear details of these trips, as well as of the Harvard Safety Patrol, organized under the National Ski Patrol System...
Last term's proposal that all Economics concentrators be required to write a thesis for some course in the field their Junior year unfortunately seems to be mouldering on some forgotten shelf along with the theories of the Mercantilists. Despite strong backing by Professor "Ski-more" Seymour Morris, genius overseer of Economics 41 which has required a course thesis from all but Seniors for several years, it now appears likely that the new requirement even if adopted will be too late to take effect on the Class...
...Basic Principles of Skiing (20th Century-Fox), like all skiing pictures, is a photographic natural. Made with veteran ski troops (see cut) it could be exhibited to any cinemaudience with profit. Despite its necessarily lengthy explanations, the film builds its own suspense right up to the end: some first-rate mountain shots of a ski patrol on reconnaissance. Nothing ever happens, but it seems about to. Well-scored is the musical accompaniment for the cross-country and downhill sequences...
...show of talent, and she has the advantage of having dieted away considerable poundage for this new appearance. As an able-bodied refugee, she becomes the embarrassing charge of a jive pianist .(Jonn Payne), who thought he was adopting an infant war orphan. But when he discovers she can ski, he gladly chucks his indoors blues singer (Lynn Bari) for his Nasturtium of the North...
...please all hands, and to graft Serenade tight to the U.S. box office, 20th Century has made it a ski-musical. For those who suffer from the brassy effects of Glenn Miller's hot and cold treatment of fair-to-middling new tunes (best: Chattanooga Choo Choo), there is plenty of slaloming at Idaho's Sun Valley. Performed by experts (and happily lampooned by liver-lipped Comic Milton Berle), the skiing sequences are a spectacular job of chiaroscuro photography...