Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter Olympics had been held last month as scheduled, U. S. Kanonen would probably have made a creditable showing against Europeans for the first time in history. But most U. S. skiers ski just for fun. Last week, while the country's experts prepared for next week's national downhill and slalom championships at Sun Valley, U. S. skidoodlers speckled the snow belt from the Atlantic to the Pacific, just waking up to what Europeans have long known: that skiing is best in March and April...
East. New England has most of the best resorts. Noteworthy is North Conway, N. H., most famed of the recently developed Eastern Slope (of the White Mountains' Presidential Range). There Banker Harvey D. Gibson, a North Conway native, has transplanted Austria's Hannes Schneider (father of modern skiing) and his celebrated Ski School, developed 50 miles of downhill trails, installed a $125,000 skimobile (180 miniature cable cars), tripled the town's income. At nearby Franconia, Austria's Baron Hubert Pantz has established a swank ski club patterned after his famed Alpine Club Mittersill, rendezvous...
Captain Tom Winship and four other members of the Ski Club are racing in the annual Appalachian Mountain Club downhill event at Pinkham Notch today...
BERLIN. N. H.--Hampered by sticky snow, Alf Engen of the Sun Valley Ski Club successfully defended his title today by capturing the National Ski Jumping Championship from a field of 200 of the nation's top flight skiers...
Probably the greatest influence on modern skiing is a book of which Hannes Schneider was co-author, and which is prominently displayed in the Widener basement. Schneider was founder of the Arlberg school and at present runs a ski school in North Conway, New Hampshire...