Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about that time, listed "fishing for bass" as his outdoor hobby. But his outdoor interests have become less, not more sedentary over the years, in remarkable contrast to old clubhouse dictum ("when thou become forty, thou shalt play nothing but golf"). A couple of years ago, he took up ski racing, careful to protect himself with short or "goon" skis. "I used to ski on the long ones, but I was breaking my ankles. Haven't been injured since I took up the goons." Basketball is his winter indoor sport, usually pursued on a team with prominent members...
...College & Daniel Webster Sir: We at Dartmouth are very proud of Ralph Miller for winning the North American downhill ski championship (TIME, March 16), but we are also quite proud of another Dartmouth man, one Daniel Webster, who fought one of the greatest legal battles in U.S. history to keep us Dartmouth College and prevent us from becoming Dartmouth University, as you so carelessly called us . . . PIERRE B. BALLIETT '56 Dartmouth College Hanover...
Noel Scullin finished first for the Crimson in sixth position, followed closely by Ebbe Dane in seventh. Harry Gardner was disqualified when he missed a gate, and freshman Pete Churchill failed to finish after his ski binding broke. Fred Churchill and Yardling Captain Jackie Vohr also raced...
...from Ski Jumping, by Sigmund Ruud...
Norway's Jon Riisnaes is not quite so articulate about his ski jumping as his fellow countryman Sigmund Ruud, former world champion; but at the young jumping age of 21, Riisnaes, a whisper-thin (6 ft. 1 in., 135 Ibs.), blue-eyed blond, is just as enthusiastic, and fast becoming as proficient as the famed Ruud brothers.*Last week, standing atop the towering (556 ft.) slide at Iron Mountain, Mich., Jon had "a little of what you call butterflies in the stomach." An exchange student (engineering) at the University of New Hampshire this year, he also had a tight...