Word: skis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson ski team will enter the Dartmouth Winter Carnival on Feb. 8 and 9 with "better prospects than last year" in spite of a lack of coaching, according to Joe Poindexter, varsity captain...
...team is beginning its third year in the Class A division and plans to enter the winter carnivals at Williams and Middlebury and to take part in the ski events at Norwich...
Last week, at the height of the season, 6,500 well-heeled guests crammed every room in St. Moritz' 47 hotels. They schussed down the powdery slopes overlooking the little valley, tried the Olympia Ski Jump, which drops a perilous 200 ft., hurtled 1,346 yds. down the ice-banked Cresta Run, one of the world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing...
...friends, pick up a $4,000 check. Once, tiring of the Palace's three orchestras, Niarchos and Chilean Magnate Arturo Lopez ordered a band from Milan, heard one number, sent it packing and hired another. On the insistence of wealthy guests who wanted an ultra-exclusive ski club, the Palace agreed to manage the Corviglia Ski Club and operate a skiers' restaurant atop 10,000-ft.-high Piz Nair. Devoted Guests Loel Guinness and Niarchos put up the $500,000 to build a cableway to the restaurant...
...Ski conditions around New England were reported as generally excellent as the Harvard community entered on its first weekend of the reading period...