Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription TV. system that is partly owned by Paramount. Like its rivals, Ski-atron and Phonevision (TIME. Jan. 8, 1951), Telemeter is designed to eliminate the commercial message from TV and to move the box office right into the viewer's living room. For a fee inserted into the Telemeter gadget attached to each TV set (Palm Springs Telemetered viewers paid...
Perhaps the ski posters, the ping pong rooms, or the large record collection contribute to the casual atmosphere, but the directors' jovial insistance that the students, themselves, plan all activities is responsible for the enthusiastic response. Twice weekly, there are lectures on topics ranging from economic stresses in Yugoslavia to racial segregation, Morris Mitchell's topic for this Sunday. The Tea Committee attracts the young ladies, proud that the Center's tea is reputed the best in the Northeast, and knowing too that males can be inveigled to help wash the dishes. S.O.M.E. Committee (Scouting, Outing, Meeting, and Eating) organizes...
Just a Transition. They have built benches, desks, bunks and tables, have lined the ranch-house walls with book cases, installed cupboards, coat racks and window screens. They have cut and hauled several cords of wood, started clearing a ski trail, piled, loaded and sold 4,000 bales of hay to help fill up the school's near-empty coffers. Meanwhile, they have also done their housework-cooking, cleaning and making beds...
...Boston American's ski columnist could not decide whether to call snow "the elusive white substance" or "the heavenly tapioca." And in Travel magazine, skiers slid down the slopes on "the beatified barrel staves...
...Kennedy went to work for his home-town paper, the Worcester, Mass. Telegram and Evening Gazette, and then joined the New York Herald Tribune as a sports writer. Says he: "My beat was so wide that I soon' became known as the decathlon man." Among his many titles: ski editor. That title and the experience came in handy when TIME'S editors picked the cover subject for the issue of Jan. 21, 1952. The subject: Andrea Mead Lawrence, a swivel-hipped girl of grace and speed, captain of the U.S. women's Olympic ski team...