Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This snow storm is the luckiest break we could have," exclaimed Harvard's new ski coach, Bill Halsey, first year Architectural School student and graduate of Dartmouth last spring, in an interview in the locker room after yesterday's first cross-country practice. "I'm pleased and surprised at today's turnout; we'll have a fighting chance against Dartmouth this winter, but we have to work on the cross-country and jumping...
...lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra, a stableful of horses, tennis courts and a ski run. Close by is a 2,000-acre real-estate development, in which he invested $280,000 two years ago and to which he devotes much of his spare time and energy...
Thomas spends his summers on Quaker Hill, his winters at Hampshire House. He devotes a lot of time to athletics, likes to ski, ride, swim and dance. On Saturday nights he holds square dances at his recreation barn, with music provided by his own four-piece orchestra. In summer his chief pastime is softball, which he plays eagerly if not too well. Famed among the sandlot intellectuals of New York and Connecticut is his softball team, Nine Old Men, which usually includes a raft of celebrities. He likes to dress up in funny rube costumes...
Having made his grab of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania legal if not altogether convincing by a "Vote Da!" plebiscite, Joseph Stalin last week continued to nibble at the North. He persuaded Finland to yield a strategic, half-mile-wide strip of land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that...
When the Gripsholm landed him and 69 other volunteers in Finland, Oscar Penttila was straightway re-enrolled as a captain, given a battalion which included 20 other U. S. volunteers. They went out on 58 ski patrols, fought Russians 40 times, lost one dead and three wounded. Of some 500 U. S. and Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent...