Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer, the Army's mountain trooper sheds his skis and white suit-and his glamor. Then he looks like any other soldier except for a cocky ski cap, sole reminder of the days when he whooshed down slopes and tramped the peaks on snowshoes. Last week, somewhere in the West, he plodded up a narrow mountain path, holding the bridle of an opinionated mule. The view he saw was mostly the rump of the mule ahead; the sounds he heard were the clip-clip-clop of mule hoofs, labored breathing, an occasional heavy stumble over stone...
Guiding hands of the "Home Front" are Roche and assistant editor and cartoonist James babcock. Rocke works in the Harvard Book Bindery and Babcock has been a University Carpenter for 12 years during which he was in change of the building of the Harvard Ski Lodge at Pinkham Notch in 1939. Babcock's 12 years here have proved very valuable to the paper, because he is acquainted with such a large number of the other employees...
University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...
Rolling up a total of 243 votes Adelbert Ames III of Eliot House and Hanover, N. H. defeated Matters by a five vote margin. Ames came from Phillips Exeter Academy, and has been on the Eliot House Committee, Student Council, Ski Team and Gliding Club...
Seven of the lettermen, and most of the building crew that erected the Ski Cabin in Jackson, N. H. three years ago, are climaxing their college skiing careers tonight at the Ski Club's annual banquet, at which Athletic Director William J. Bingham will be present as well as a large group of skiing alumni...