Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snow lay deep on the hills around Oslo. On Christmas Day, as always, Norwegians thronged the ski slopes. Men over 45 and boys under 18, outside the Nazi slave-labor brackets, began practicing for this winter's illegal championship, the fourth since Norway's athletes went on strike...
Norway's looting in some respects has been the most scientific and painstaking of all. In addition to ail the other standard tricks, the Germans here have gone so far as to requisition personal property of individuals right down to woolen blankets, ski trousers and windbreaker jackets...
...thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing for an hour when a train is stalled. With his ski-slide nose and matching chin, he looks a little funny but he also looks normal, even personable, seems part of the landscape rather than the limelight...
...strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn, with two chemists to help. He ended up with the formula for Skol, brought it back to the U.S. But his family took a low view of it all, so George, with about $10,000 of his own money, went...
...Olympic team which set a mile record in Paris in 1924. He and Bumpy lived with their two daughters in a remodeled farmhouse in Stamford (now rented to Lyricist Dorothy Fields). Their daughters, 15 and 14, used to play tennis and swim with their parents in summer, skate and ski with them in Vermont in the winter. Now they are both working on farms for the summer...