Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge crowd willingly ducked for shelter. Indeed, indoor sports are supposed to share top billing with the other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many a ski bunny got no closer to a snowy slope or slick pond than the front stoop of Zeta...
...rugged, there were enough sports to go around and the hosts just managed to break even, competitively speaking. The Green ski team was beaten at its own game by Denver and Middlebury, and the basketball five dropped a close one to Princeton. On the credit side, the Indians registered, hockey and swimming victories, over Harvard and Princeton, respectively...
Other sporty features of the weekend included a figure-skating exhibition by, Barbara Ann Scott, the crowning of a lovely young thing from Smith as Snow Queen, and a ski jump meet Saturday afternoon at a nearby golf course. Dartmouth's Don Trembley won that event and also turned in the longest jump, 141 feet. Not many of the large crowd which was there at the beginning stayed for the finish of the jump. The event was tedious under any conditions, and on Saturday only a battle-hardened North Korean could have stood the bitter cold for very long...
...clock on a foggy morning last week, the door of Landsberg Prison, where the U.S. holds some 500 German war criminals, swung open. Out came 29 men in rough-fitting ski pants, blue or grey jackets, no ties. They blinked at the waiting crowds. Berthold Krupp rushed up to older brother Alfried, heir to the bomb-shattered steel and munitions empire (only branch producing: the locomotive works), thrust a bouquet of daffodils and tulips into his hands. The two rode off in a black sedan to a champagne breakfast at Landsberg's best hotel...
Yale edged the varsity skiers by eight-tenths of a point to take second place behind champion Williams in the Eastern Division Championships at Lyndonville, Vermont, over the weekend. Meanwhile, the freshman ski team placed second behind Dublin School in its opening meet there, while Mount Hermon School finished last in the triangular meet...