Word: slalomers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winter sports run riot at the Fine Arts this week, restrained only by a tenuous plot and some inconsequential German dialogue. Brilliant performances of skiing, slalom (scooting downhill along sinuous paths among obstacles), ski-joring (skiing along the level with a horse doing the pulling), bob-sled racing, and skating are crammed into this virile, carefree picture called after one of the sports "Slalom...
...Slalom" must be a rare treat for the devotees of snow and ice, for besides being entirely in a sympathetic vein, it shows how the feats of splendid grace are performed by experts. For the rest of humanity this unique film is vicarious participation in the breathless and apparently effortless antics of winter athletes, without involving any of the chills and spills, but at the same time giving a most generous sample in comparison with the measly glimpses of the news reels...
...Last fortnight, Germany won the downhill & slalom skiing, Finland, the 40-kilometre ski-race. At the finish last week, 15 more Olympic championships had been decided. The events...
Shaw tried out for the team in his Freshman year, but failed to make it. Then last year he not only skied with the team, but also beat Dick Durrance in the slalom race at the Dartmouth Carnival...
...Appalachian Mountain Club race he got a fourth over the Wildcat trail at Pinkham Notch and was on the team all the year, going to Dartmouth just for the slalom as noted above, and entering the Olympic tryouts held under the auspices of the Hochgebirge Club...