Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity ski team won the Brown Invitational Giant Slalom Saturday despite a squad weakened by exams. It was the first time the Crimson had entered the meet...
...Ski Meet...
KITZBUEHEL, Austria, Jan. 16--The three-day International Hahnenkamm Ski Races, starting here tomorrow, are a star-studded dress rehearsal for the 1956 Alpine Ski World Championships at nearby Bad Gastein two weeks later...
...modern-day necessities that included 6,400,000 TV sets, 4,000,000 phonographs and hi-fi sets, 5,308,000 automatic washing machines, dryers and ironers and a big budget for fun. Example: nine years ago Detroit Auto Dealer Everett Kircher raised $100,000 to install a ski lift on Boyne Mountain in Michigan. Today Boyne Mountain has a heated swimming pool, private golf course, two snowmaking machines and a second ski lift near by. Hotels and motels are jammed, and the whole area is booming. "It's better than a plant," says local banker Robert A. Campbell...
...Author Shulman looks rather like a hale Oscar Levant, but he writes like a much younger man, say, the undergraduate editor of the University of Minnesota's defunct humor mag Ski-U-Mah. In this book Ski-U-Mah's ex-editor decided to double his literary smileage by combining the thoroughly worked drolleries of army life with the equally well-publicized foibles of exurbia...